Best practice for backups

I am wanting to know some ways to backup my databases. I have 3 I need to
backup. 1st = 155 MB 2nd = 12 MB 3rd = 5 MB. 2nd one is fairly new and is
growing. I want to have a backup every night. Will doing just a full backup
give me everything I need to restore a database? How would I get it to backu
p
every day but NOT overwrite the previous file, I want to create a new file
every night so if for some reason I need to get information off a databse 3
months ago I will be able to. What qould be the best way to do this?what is the back up topology for your company? what kinds of back up
retention policies do they have? You could make sql back ups, which are then
carted off to a back up server, and depending on the retention policy, you
could feasibly have data from 3 months ago...that is a lot of data to keep
around though...do you really need to be able to go that far back?
"pwverber" wrote:

> I am wanting to know some ways to backup my databases. I have 3 I need to
> backup. 1st = 155 MB 2nd = 12 MB 3rd = 5 MB. 2nd one is fairly new and is
> growing. I want to have a backup every night. Will doing just a full backu
p
> give me everything I need to restore a database? How would I get it to bac
kup
> every day but NOT overwrite the previous file, I want to create a new file
> every night so if for some reason I need to get information off a databse
3
> months ago I will be able to. What qould be the best way to do this?|||3 months is what my manager wants. On the 4th month we will keep only 1 file
and remove the rest from that month. We will have 3 months of backups though
.
"Tom Mongold" wrote:
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> what is the back up topology for your company? what kinds of back up
> retention policies do they have? You could make sql back ups, which are th
en
> carted off to a back up server, and depending on the retention policy, you
> could feasibly have data from 3 months ago...that is a lot of data to kee
p
> around though...do you really need to be able to go that far back?
> "pwverber" wrote:
>|||Either use the maintenance wizard for this, or you have to do some coding to
create a new backup
files each time you do the backup. Search the archives and you will find suc
h sample code.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
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>I am wanting to know some ways to backup my databases. I have 3 I need to
> backup. 1st = 155 MB 2nd = 12 MB 3rd = 5 MB. 2nd one is fairly new and is
> growing. I want to have a backup every night. Will doing just a full backu
p
> give me everything I need to restore a database? How would I get it to bac
kup
> every day but NOT overwrite the previous file, I want to create a new file
> every night so if for some reason I need to get information off a databse
3
> months ago I will be able to. What qould be the best way to do this?