Red Gate SQL Backup

Features

• Compression - three levels of compression, giving you a choice to optimise for speed or for size.
• Compression Analyser - samples data to help you determine which compression level is best suited to your requirements.
• Extremely secure backups - with 256-bit AES encryption, SQL Backup secures your backup files from unauthorised access.
• Management of restoration is easier and requires less time. Complexity is removed through the filtering options provided.
• Makes both backing up and restoring faster - as the time taken to back up is significantly reduced, this will reduce the chance of something going wrong during the backup process.
• GUI interface - take advantage of the user-friendly wizards to guide you through the backup and restore process.
• Timeline Monitoring lets you visualise the properties of past, current and future activities. The timeline is highly interactive, allowing you to zoom in and out to view potential clashes and the status of backups and restores. With one click, you can quickly change the properties of scheduled backups and restores.
• Enhanced backup and restore history are available in both the timeline and the activity history tab, so that you can identify problem areas before they cause backups to fail.
• Integrates with SQL Server Agent - so you can schedule database backups to run regularly with no intervention.
• Enterprise and server level reporting means you can generate reports across your entire enterprise or just for a single server.
• Command-line interface - for power users who want total control of SQL Backup. Use syntax similar to T-SQL's BACKUP and RESTORE commands to set up your maintenance plans.
• Extended stored procedure - run backup and restore operations using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
• Split backups - take advantage of multi-CPU and high-speed disk array systems to speed up the backup and restore process even further.
• Mirrored backups - create two or more backup files simultaneously to different disks, to minimise the possibility of media errors.
• Multiple threads within the engine let you achieve backups to a single file faster.
• Log Shipping wizard guides you through the process of setting up log shipping backup and restore jobs.
• Hints for on-the-spot software support - click the Hints icons on the GUI to read concise tips when you want assistance.

System Req.

Database servers supported:

SQL Backup is supported on Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2005 and SQL Server 2000 (SP 3 or later), with the following editions:

• Developer Edition (32-bit)
• Standard Edition (32-bit)
• Enterprise Edition (32-bit)
• Enterprise Edition x64 (64-bit)
• Enterprise Edition IA64 (64-bit)
• Standard Edition x64 (64-bit)
• Standard Edition IA64 (64-bit)

Operating Systems supported:

SQL Backup is supported on the following Microsoft Windows operating systems:

• Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4
• Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server Service Pack 4
• Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2
• Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition and Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows 7

Operating system requirements

• MDAC
• 512MB RAM
• 100 MB Hard disk space