SQL Server Backup and Restore with Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Service [!INCLUDE SQL Server SQL MI] This topic introduces [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] backups to and restoring from the Microsoft Azure Blob ...

Full File Backups (SQL Server) [!INCLUDE SQL Server] This topic is relevant for [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] databases that contain multiple files or filegroups. The files in a [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] ...

While these restoration options are not common, they show that your backup vendor is fully integrated with SQL Server and can take advantage of all the available backup and restore options.

File system backups are like the cold backups in SQL Server 6.5 in 1998 when I was still an undergrad. Continuous archiving is closest to the basic SQL Server backup/restore process.

Don Chouinard, product development manager at Dantz Development Corp., examines the trade-offs made in achieving fast backups or accurate restores and how another alternative, progressive backup ...