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Taking Log Backups
Chapter 5: Log Backups
We're going to discuss taking log backups the "GUI way," in SSMS, and by using native
T-SQL Backup commands. However, before taking that elusive first log backup, let's
quickly insert ten new rows of data into each of our three tables, as shown in Listing
5-5. Having done so, we'll have ten rows of data for each table that is captured in a full
database backup, and another ten rows for each table that is not in the full database
backup, but where the details of the modifications are recorded in the live transaction
log file.
USE [DatabaseForLogBackups]
GO
INSERT INTO MessageTable1
VALUES ('Second set of data for MessageTable1', GETDATE())
GO 10
INSERT INTO MessageTable2
VALUES ('Second set of data for MessageTable2', GETDATE())
GO 10
INSERT INTO MessageTable3
VALUES ('Second set of data for MessageTable3', GETDATE())
GO 10
Listing 5-5: A second data load.
The GUI way: native SSMS log backups
Open SSMS, connect to your test server, locate the DatabaseForLogBackups database,
right-click on it and select the Tasks | Back Up… option. Select the Back Up… menu item
to bring up the General page of the Back Up Database window, with which you should
be familiar from Chapter 3, when we performed full database backups. The first set of
configurable options is shown in Figure 5-4.
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