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PrestonZX
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Posted - 2008-09-03 : 13:55:35
What order should the maintenace plan backup the data? I currently have it doing databases then logs. I found out today that to get the point in time I needed, I had to restore 3 files versus 2. For example, I needed a point in time recovery for date/time 200809021500 and had to restore these 3 files.

Restore database_200809010100.bak
Restore database_log_200809010100.trn
Restore database_log_200809020100.trn

with STOPAT = N'09/02/2008 03:00:00 PM'

I'm thinking about reversing the maintenance plan to backup the logs first then database. What do you all think? Thanks.

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2008-09-03 : 14:13:16
We perform full backups nightly and transaction log backups every 15 minutes.

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