More About Backing Up and Restoring

The information earlier in this chapter provided a straightforward look at the procedures you use to perform backups, to schedule backups, to restore from those backups, and so on. The information that follows offers you a more in-depth discussion and explanation of strategies and techniques used for backing up, restoring, and recovering databases and why you do so.

For more information, choose one of the following topics:

About Automatic Recovery

About Transaction Logs

About CHECKPOINT

About Dumps

About Loads

How to Recover from Media Failure