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With 30+ years of DBA experience I will tell you first hand that Benjamin Franklin was a smart man! His quote, “If You Fail to Plan, You Are Planning to Fail” really hits home when you’re database is broken, lost or stolen. And we see this too often! Most recently the culprit has been ransomware but that’s no excuse for …

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Backup Retention Part 2 Backup Retention Part 3 With backup retention times there is always a balance between keeping enough backups and purging those backups quickly to free up space. Some clients I have worked with only keep 2 to 3 days of backups, and others keep multiple years of backups. I generally like to push for something longer term …

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