The concept of backing up data is one of those things that should be extremely intuitive, but is often implemented poorly, if at all. I know quite a few database administrators (DBAs) that don’t worry about regular, structured backups because their database server is on a SAN (storage area network) and the data is therefore backed up regularly. To me, this makes no sense at all, since there is absolutely no contingency for point-in-time restoration of data, outside of what happened to have been backed up as part of a complete Windows backup solution. If there were a catastrophic ...
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