Download Demos
Videos
- Microsoft Certified Master Readiness Video: Backup Internals
- Microsoft Certified Master Readiness Video: Backup Internals Demo
- Microsoft Certified Master Readiness Video: Restore Internals
- Microsoft Certified Master Readiness Video: Restore Internals Demo
- Microsoft Certified Master Readiness Video: Partial Database Availability and Online Piecemeal Restore
Blogs
- Brent Ozar has a good page listing out his articles on backups
- Paul Randal’s blog category on Backups and Restores
- The SQL Server Customer Advisory Team put out a two-part article on Tuning the Performance of Backup Compression. Part 2.
Whitepapers
- Pankaj Agarwal: SQL Server 2000 Backup and Restore. (Even though it’s for SQL Server 2000, many principles still apply.)
- Thomas H. Grohser: Fast and Reliable Backup and Restore of Multi-Terabytes Database over the Network.