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Chapter 8: Database Backup and Restore with SQL Backup Pro
SQL Backup Pro full backup using T-SQL
We're now going to perform a second full backup our DatabaseForSQLBackups
database, but this time using a SQL Backup T-SQL script, which will look similar to the
one we saw on the Script tab of Step 5 of the GUI wizard. Before we do so, let's populate
MessageTable2 with a million rows of data of the same size and structure as the data in
MessageTable1, so that our database file should be hovering somewhere around 1 GB
in size.
USE [DatabaseForSQLBackups]
GO
DECLARE @messageData NVARCHAR(200)
SET @messageData = 'This is a different message we are going to
use to fill up the second table. We want to get
this as close to 200 characters as we can to
fill up the database as close to our initial
size as we can.'
INSERT INTO dbo.MessageTable2
VALUES ( @messageData, GETDATE() )
GO 1000000
Listing 8-3: Populating the MessageTable2 table.
Take a look in the SQLData folder, and you'll now see that the data file is now about 1GB
in size and the log file is still around 100 MB. Now that we have some more data to work
with, Listing 8-4 shows the SQL Backup T-SQL script to perform a second full backup of
our DatabaseForSQLBackups database.
EXECUTE master..sqlbackup '-SQL "BACKUP DATABASE [DatabaseForSQLBackups]
TO DISK = ''C:\SQLBackups\Chapter8\DatabaseForSQLBackups_Full_2.sqb''
WITH DISKRETRYINTERVAL = 30, DISKRETRYCOUNT = 10, THREADCOUNT = 2, COMPRESSION = 1"'
GO
Listing 8-4: Second full backup of DatabaseForSQLBackups using SQL Backup T-SQL.
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