The Options tab of the SQL Safe Backup Policy Wizard allows you to enter the backup types and options for each operation included in the backup policy.
What information is on this tab?
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On the Options tab, you can choose the types of backups you want for your backup policy. You can specify one, two, or the three types of backup: Full, Differential, or Log, just select . Select the respective backup types and provide their settings.
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| Compression | Available | Available | - You designate the compression rate necessary to match your storage needs.
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| Encryption | Available | Not available | - Select the level of encryption you need to ensure data security within your environment.
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| Pre/Post-Backup Commands | Available | Available | - Allows you to specify commands you want to execute before and/or after the backup completes. Select Configure.. to determine the commands you want to run. Click on
 Image Added to add the cmd file. You can also select to Quit backup job if the pre-backup command fails. Yes is the default.
The command can be a script or a user executable, non-interactive program. It should be located on a UNC path.
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| Verify the integrity of the backup when complete | Available | Available | - Performs a data integrity check after the backup is created. SQL Safe verifies the integrity of the data files in the backup set created by this backup.
- Verifying the backup helps identify potential issues that could occur when restoring these data files.
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| Generate maps | Available | Not available | - Generates maps containing metadata for each database included in your backup file.
- Depending on the number of transactions completed since your last backup, generating maps may impact the performance of the backup operation.
- Generating maps is optional, but must exist in the backup file for InstantRestore to accept and restore that file.
- SQL virtual database can attach SQL Safe backup files without the metadata, but the data files improve SQL vdb performance during the creation of the virtual database.
- For more information, see recover objects using SQL virtual database. This option is selected by default.
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| Report T-Log operations that are skipped as SUCCESS | Available | Available | - Allows SQL Safe to report SKIPPED T-Log operations as SUCCESS.
- Avoids backup policies from reporting a warning status when T-Log operations are skipped for databases that are in simple recovery.
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| Include database logins in the backup file | Available | Not available | - Copies SQL login information for the selected databases, including credentials and privileges, when the backup files are written.
- To help ensure the security of your SQL Server database, SQL Safe encrypts the login information. This option is available for full backups only.
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Thread Count | Available | Not available | - Allows you to specify how many threads you want SQL Safe to use to distribute the backup operation across multiple processors on the target SQL Server computer. Use this setting to optimize backup performance.
- When the resultant backup file is restored, SQL Safe uses the same thread setting to ensure consistent performance.
- Select Auto to have SQL Safe determine the optimal thread count for your environment.
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Transaction Log | Available | Available | - Removes all completed transactions, inactive entries, from the transaction log after SQL Safe finishes the backup.
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Checksum: Generate | Available | Available | - Generates a checksum for the backup file.
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Checksum: Ignore Errors | Available | Available | - Ignores any errors from the generated checksum.
- If checksum errors are encountered, this option indicates that SQL Safe should continue to back up this database.
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Backup: Copy only | Available | Available | Specifies a copy-only backup. This is a copy of the database and cannot be used as part of a restore strategy. It will allow you to take a "snapshot" backup of your database without interfering the LSN (log sequence number) order of your backup strategy. |
Backup: Read-write filegroups | Available | Available | - Specifies a partial backup, which includes the primary filegroup and any read-write secondary filegroups. Read-write filegroups are not supported by SQL virtual database.
- If this option is selected, the Generate metadata option (Generate maps for InstantRestore and SQL virtual database) will be disabled.
- Backups created with the read-write filegroups option cannot be used by SQL virtual database to create virtual databases.
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