[lug] Backing up windows servers to Linux tape

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Mon Jan 26 19:35:05 MST 2004


On Monday, Jan 26, 2004, at 19:17 America/Denver, George Sexton wrote:

> Actually, SQL Server can be backed up while it is on-line. You can dump
> to a file, or a tape device. You just back up the backup file, and not
> the live databases.

Ah.  Makes sense.  I don't keep up much on it... we only have two small 
ones and the plugin for NetVault (and the recovery tests we did) seems 
to work perfectly.  :-)  One of those... out of sight, out of mind, 
backups.  (GRIN)

Nate




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