Backups and Recovery

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This is the most important task of an database administrator, you must protect your data at all costs, this means regular backups and regular restores even to another system just to check the integrity of those backups. There is no point in putting yourself in a position where you are holding your breathe when a restore is happening only to find out that the backup is corrupt, try if possible to perform regular restores if not then at least you should be performing a disaster recovery test once per year. Not being able to restore could be a disaster for your company and your job.                 more...