Your SQL Server is exposed to the threat of data loss. Any of these incidents can make your missional critical databases irretrievable, such as ransomware, hardware failure, network intrusion, natural disaster, theft, human error, etc.
Backup to local and offsite to eliminate data loss possibility
To avoid disastrous data loss, the best practice is to keep at least 3 copies of your SQL Server data:
one on your original SQL Server;
one to local storage such as a NAS device dedicated for backup;
another one to offsite storage, either your FTP/SFTP server or your subscribed cloud storage, to prevent local disaster from destroying your local data.
CloudBacko Pro can backup your SQL Server databases to a wide-range of free and paid public cloud storage, including Amazon S3, AWS compatible storages, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft OneDrive, OpenStack, Rackspace Cloud Files, and Dropbox.
Enable encryption when backing up to offsite
When backing up your SQL Server databases to offsite location, since it is not your own environment, make sure to enable encryption to prevent somebody from stealing your data.
With CloudBacko Pro, no lazy encrypting keys such as "abc123" or "123456" will be used. It provides unbreakable encryption to your SQL backup, as all the data and filenames can be encrypted with an AES 256-bit truly randomized key. Even a 10.51 Pentaflops supercomputer needs 3.31 x 1056 years to crack such key. Therefore, hackers will not be able to crack your backed up data on the cloud.
Set it to run automatically, and forget it
When your SQL Server is down, you don't want to restore to a backup that was manually taken a year ago. Therefore, you need a solution that can run automatically once or several times a day by itself based on your pre-configured schedule, so that you can restore to the latest version when needed. CloudBacko Pro allows you to define your own schedules to run your SQL Server database backup (e.g. after work everyday).
Keep multiple versions of backup
It's always good to keep mulitple backup versions of your SQL databases, so that when you realize it's not the latest backup you want to restore to, you can still choose an earlier version to restore. With CloudBacko Pro's powerful retention policy setup, it is simple and flexible to define various versioning rules to suit your version retention needs.
Fast SQL Server hot backup
With our multi-thread and block-level incremental backup technologies, CloudBacko Pro is able to quickly backup large SQL databases to your local and offsite storage.
With CloudBacko Pro's comprehensive reporting tool, it can't be more handy to get clear visibility into the backup details of all destinations, including usage trend, backup and restore reports, log for warnings and errors.
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