In this guide, we will discuss SQL Server backup types, recovery models, as well as best practices that you should take into account when putting together your backup strategy.
The goal of this article is to provide a high-level overview of SQL Server backup and recovery. For details on the topics discussed below, refer to the articles that each section links to.
SQL Server Backup Types
Microsoft SQL Server supports five types of backup: full, differential, transaction log, tail log, and copy-only backup. We will focus on the first three types in this article, as they are the most common.
Full Backup
A full backup is a complete backup of your SQL Server database. It backs up all of the objects of the database: tables, procedures, functions, views, indexes, etc.
You can create a full SQL Server database backup using SQL Server...