To start i dont have much experience with DB's. In summary, i have an application for a client. They dont want to necessarilary host their DB online but have a local sql server set up for their 2 computers.
I have a batch script that backs up the database every night. Is there a way in the batch script to send them to the cloud like a skydrive,etc?
Try our SQLBackupAndFTP software. You can schedule backup jobs with SQLBackupAndFTP (full, differential and transaction log backups), save backups at local folders, FTP, Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Amazon S3, SkyDrive, delete old backups and configure email notifications... Basic features are available in free version or you can try all features in trial mode.
Just backup to SkyDrive folder. If DB is big use rsync for sending to cloud or do full backups every week, differential every day and transaction every hour (depending of you application etc) then there will be less data to send to cloud.
backup database to SD folder - using backup compression (if available in your edition of sql server, see WITH COMPRESSION clause of BACKUP statement help in BOL) or using 3rd party backup compression tool (either free or paid)
also you can backup database to temporary folder and then zip it to SD folder
If you are willing to spend a bit of money, cloudberry has an sql backup tool that will do exactly that (and more).
http://www.cloudberrylab.com/sql-backup-amazon-s3-azure.aspx
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does anybody know a way to perform a periodic remote backup of the full environment (so comprehensive of the application servers and SQL databases) in Jelastic?
I wanted to use Google Drive to store the backups as I was already using it with Plesk.
Thanks.
I am using azure server for sql database.
I want to enabled backup database daily.
And also need to dump sql file for current database and other images uploaded to server.
Any suggestions please?
You can install backup software to your azure server and backup your SQL server to azure cloud storage. There are plenty such software (Duplicati, CloudBerry, Acronis etc).
Some of them have special features to backup SQL server in a proper way, also there are free versions among them.
You can do this in a different ways. You can use the third party applications and schedule backup jobs. Or you can use the native tools and configure everything by your-self. Hope this will be useful for you.
Since you're going down the Azure services route, for the images you had ought to look at Azure Blob Storage
And to back it up...Look at this answer
I know that Cloudberry works with Azure. You can try this software for doing backups daily both full image or icnremental backup.The price is afforable. The tool's simple. I see the person above has already mentioned Cloudberry. Seems to be a good thing.
I'm sure there's a good amount of developers here that use DirectAdmin and I had a quick question.
I've always used cPanel and I'm not on a server that is using DirectAdmin instead. Where in DirectAdmin can you generate a full backup of the account at the user level?
Also, do DirectAdmin backups include everything related to the account like cPanel backups do? For example, not only the files and databases but also the cron jobs, DNS zones, email accounts, etc.?
And where are the backups stored by default? Is there an option to send the backups to a remote server via FTP like you can with cPanel?
There are two different backup systems built into DA:
Admin Tools | System Backup. This tool lets you backup configuration data and arbitrary directories, locally or using FTP or SCP.
Admin Tools | Admin Backup/Transfer. This tool is oriented toward backing up data account by account, in one archive per account, in a format that you can use to restore from (in the same tool) on the original or another DA server (i.e. if you want to transfer to a new server). You can back up locally and/or via FTP.
Both options can also be scheduled via cron.
Depending on your level of access, only one of these might be available to you. This page has further info for non-administrators: http://www.site-helper.com/backup.html.
You can improve your DirectAdmin backup with an incremental backup plugin that includes local and remote backup location, please check the setup guide here
I have a large database in an AWS instance running SQL Server 2008 on a Windows Server 2008 R2.
The database is constantly changing and writing information, and its size is about ~100GB
I wish to migrate from our Amazon services to Microsoft Azure.
But I cannot afford any lost of information more them for more than 20-30 minutes
I don't mind using the Azure SQL or running a SQL Server under a VM in Azure Cloud, but I must keep the databases live and updated, there are few main tables that information is being added to them constantly
What would be the best way to do so ?
if you are using an AWS instance and not RDS and you are going to an Azure instance and not "Azure SQL Database" you can use log-shipping or something similar to get the downtime down to a few seconds: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187103.aspx
The steps you need to take:
Take full backup on AWS
restore full backup without recovery on Azure
take log backup on AWS
restore log backup without recovery on Azure
repeat 3 and 4 until the time it takes is short enough (you probably want to script this out)
take app offline
take another log backup on AWS
restore that log backup WITH recovery on Azure
repoint App to Azure
bring App online again.
3, 4 and 5 is what log-shipping would automate, but you could just write a powershell script too.
Has anyone come up with a good way to do backups of SQL Azure databases?
The two approaches seem to be SSIS or BCP. SSIS looks like it requires a local install of MS SQL 2008 which I don't have. BCP looks a bit more promising but I haven't managed to find any examples of using it with SQL Azure as of yet.
At the PDC09 they announced SQL Azure Data Sync, which was an early preview that is designed to let you keep your local SQL Server in sync with an Azure SQL Server.
In terms of database backups for maintenance etc, then of course that is part of the service you pay for with Azure that MS manage.
The sync framework team have a blog on a number of issues surrounding data syncronisation between Azure and a local DB - http://blogs.msdn.com/sync/default.aspx
My personal favorite solution is to use Azure Mobile Services to do a nightly backup & export from SQL Azure to a .bacpac file hosted in Azure Storage. This solution doesn't require a 3rd party tool, no bcp or powershell, is 100% cloud and doesn't require a local hosted SQL Server instance to download/copy/backup anything.
There are about 8 different steps, but they're all pretty easy: http://geekswithblogs.net/BenBarreth/archive/2013/04/15/how-to-create-a-nightly-backup-of-your-sql-azure.aspx
SQL Azure now offers automated and schedulable backups to bacpac files in Azure blob storage
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql-bi-sap-cloud-crm_all_in_one_place/archive/2013/07/24/sql-azure-automated-database-export.aspx
We use this to make nightly backups and have the tool keep the most recent 14 backups.
Enzo Backup for SQL Azure is available (full release expected October 1st): http://www.bluesyntax.net/backup.aspx
You can backup a database with transactional consistency and restore it at a later time; it stores its backups in the cloud, or on-premise. It also includes a scheduling capability.
I spent some time with BCP and got it working acceptably. It's a bit annoying to have to do the backup/restore table-by-table but I'll script it and that will do until Microsoft bring in a proper SQL Azure backup feature which is supposedly going to be the first half of 2010.
Backup:
bcp mydb.dbo.customers out customers.dat -n -U user#azureserver -P pass -S tcp:azureserver.database.windows.net
Restore:
bcp mydb.dbo.customers in customers.dat -n -U user#azureserver -P pass -S tcp:azureserver.database.windows.net
We set up a simple solution using Red Gate tools, but it too requires a local SQL instance: http://mooneyblog.mmdbsolutions.com/index.php/2011/01/11/simple-database-backups-with-sql-azure
I'm using www.sqlscripter.com to generate insert/update data scripts (to sync my local db). Not for free (shareware) but worth to try.
You can now use SQL Azure Copy to perform backups of your database. More details on this can be found here.
Seems that azurelabs has something to offer now:
Azure Labs
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