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Action ... | What it does ... |
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| View Policy Settings | Allows you to view a summary of the policy settings. |
Edit Policy | Opens the Backup Policy wizard, allowing you to change your policy settings. |
Disable Policy | Disables the selected policy. Once a policy is disabled, it will no longer perform backup operations for the associated databases. To back up a database that belongs to a disabled policy, perform a manual backup using the Backup wizardWizard. |
Start Full Backups | Performs a full backup of all databases that belong to this policy by running the corresponding job. This action applies your previously defined policy settings, and is only available when your policy includes a full backup operation. |
Start Diff Backups | Performs a differential backup of all databases that belong to this policy by running the corresponding job. This action applies your previously defined policy settings, and is only available when your policy includes a differential backup operation. |
Start Log Backups | Performs a transaction log backup of all databases that belong to this policy by running the corresponding job. This action applies your previously defined policy settings, and is only available when your policy includes a log backup operation. |
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Column | Definition |
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Progress | During an operation, the progress bar will denote the percentage of the operation completed. When the operation is complete, it will display a green bar labeled 100%. If an operation completed with errors, this column will display a red bar labeled Error. |
Instance | Displays the instance name that was backed up by this operation. |
Icon | Displays an icon if the backup includes maps containing metadata for InstantRestore and SQL virtual database. For more information about InstantRestore, see How InstantRestore works. For information about SQL virtual database, see Recover recover objects using SQL virtual database. |
Database | Displays the database name that was backed up by this operation. |
Operation | Displays the operation performed. The options are Backup and Verify. |
Backup Type | Displays the type of the backup performed by the operation. The options are Full, Transaction Log, Differential, and File. |
Compressed | Displays the compressed file size of the backup. |
Ratio | Displays the percentage of the data that was compressed. |
Compression | Displays the type of compression that was used for this backup. |
Duration | Displays the number of seconds required to complete the operation. |
Start Time | Displays the start date and time of the operation. |
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Tab | Description |
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Statistics | Displays the database size, the size of the uncompressed backup, the size of the compressed backup, and the compression ratio achieved with this backup. The ratio is a measure of the storage savings achieved with SQL Safe compression technology. For more information about the storage space savings you can realize using SQL Safe, see Understand understand your total cost of operation (TCO). |
Result Text | Displays text describing the result of the backup. |
Files | Displays the complete path of the backup set file for the backup. |
Backup Set Description | Displays the description you specified for this backup. |
Storage Options | Displays which locations were chosen to store the backup files. |