It's important to protect your data on Microsoft Power Platform and in Dataverse and to provide continuous availability of service through system or manual backups. System backups are automatically ...

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There don't appear to be any logs for the backup operation - are they stored somewhere unexpected? I have noticed that on times when the service gets killed, the backup file for that day is much ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...