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I got a job handling a small company's IT, but they want to offsite backup a 200GB SQL Server 2008 database and I'm a MCSA, not a DBA, so I want to make sure I'm not making any incorrect assumptions.

-Doing a backup from within SQL studio makes a 200GB backup file, which is way too big to send offsite nightly.
-Doing a Windows Server Backup with VSS does make smaller incremental backups, but can't be used with an online database without fear of getting a broken backup.

With those two assumptions in place, my plan is thus:

1: Offline the database by stopping the SQL service.
2: Backup the entire server with Windows Server Backup.
3: Restart the SQL service to bring the database back up.
4: Mirror the changes on the backup drive offsite.

It's a 9-5 office, so downtime for the database isn't an issue after hours.

Can anyone see any...


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