Backup & Recovery from First Principles, Part 8: Verification – Your Backup Job Succeeding Proves Almost Nothing
ended on an uncomfortable question: the “clean” full backup I used to repair a corrupted page – how did I know it was clean? This part demonstrates, with a deliberately corrupted database, exactly how little…
Backup & Recovery from First Principles, Part 7: Page-Level Restore – Fixing 8 KB Instead of 8 TB
Storage corrupted one 8 KB page in a large table. One option: restore the entire database from backup, losing hours to I/O. The better option, when the damage is small and isolated: restore just that…