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Compliance and Backup Strategy: A Closer Look at the Connection

The Intersection of Compliance and Digital Data Organizations of all sizes and shapes must comply with government and industry regulations. Some...

Migrating SQL Server to Azure SQL Database

by Kyle

Migrating SQL Server to Azure SQL Database provides essential benefits. Such advantages include the following: lower cost by shifting expenses from...

Initialize Transactional Replication from your Backups

by Kyle

This blog provides guidance on the perceived limitations and restrictions on initializing transactional replication subscribers from backups. The...

Understanding Azure SQL Database Architecture

by Kyle

This blog will give you a glimpse into the internal architecture of SQL Database and brings to light some of the critical concepts that SQL Database...

SQLSafe xp_ss_restore Could not retrieve version from SQL Server

by DSmithers

I recently inherited a system which uses the backups of a production system to populate a test environment for devs. They do a refresh every...

sql safe backup FileFilegroups

by larry.gott@opm.gov

Selecting *Backup* from the top left menu option - allows for a one time backup Full, Differential, Log and File are the choices. However,...

Incremental Backup recovery

by AYAO

Hi there, We have made the incremental backup of an SQL server database. Unfortunately, all the "full" type backups of...

link to blog posts for SQL Safe Backup

by Peter

link to blog posts for SQL Safe Backup

? Will any SQL Safe tools extract data from a corrupt .bak

by bob.daniel

We're trying to recover one specific table for a 4 TiB database with a 1.3 GiB compressed backup file. The .bak file appears to be corrupted at...

Idera SQL Safe Backup not working in Local and Azure Blob

by Sathish Kumar

Backup are not working below scenario While taking backup in Local Cannot open backup device...

SQL Safe on new SQL server says unable to access backup location

by Glenn Atwell

We just upgraded one of our SQL servers (we did a fresh format from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 and went from SQL 2005 SP4 to SQL 2017. We...

Instance unreachable in SQLSafe Management Console

by GraemeH

I have an instance that is unreachable in SQL Safe using the SERVERNAMEINSTANCE but if we use IP AddressINSTANCE to connect from the management...

Many logs on windows events

by rconzatti

I'm testing SQL Safe for a possible purchase, however I'm finding that the records in Windows events are way too much. Is there any option...

John Morehouse scripts for DBCC using SQL Virtual Database

by TXM

I watched the webinar “Avoid Corruption Nightmares Within Your Virtual Database” by John Morehouse. He said that the scripts he...

String reference not set to an instance of a String. Parameter name: s

by ibarnetson@goempyrean.com

I'd be greatfull for any guidance or help. Thanks. Command I'm using is: SQLsafeCmd.exe Restore refresh_20180119142448...

Database size limitation in SQL Virtual Database?

by JohnDBA

I'm currently using the sqlVDBcmd.exe version 8.4.1.130, and having trouble virtualizing a large backup file. The .safe file is compressed...

External component has thrown an exception

by collinsb

Hi all, I am getting the below output from event viewer when trying to backup or restore using SQLSafe to a new SQL server. The operation will fail...

The backup service could not save licensing information to the registry

by jbaynham50

Hi, I am doing a trial of SQL Safe, and have got as far as setting up a backup policy for one of my servers. The job runs (for about 15 minutes) and...