Backup Strategy for MSSQL

Hi everyone. As the company's "DBA" (long story) I wanted to get some opinions on my backup plan. Currently, I have the following in place:

Full weekly backup of master.
msdb is treated as a user database, so msdb and two user databases receive Full weekly backups, Daily differentials and hourly transaction log backups.

The maintenence plan will remove logs older than 2 weeks.

Our networking group backs up the MSSQL to tape regularly.

I'm fairly new to DBA work, but if this scenario sounds like a sound plan, I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks in advance!We back our stuff up nightly, however you have to decide how much info you are willing to lose should your system crash. If weekly backups have been working and you feel confident in your hardware then stick to that schedule.

HTH,
Aric|||

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Originally Posted by DbAFtW

Hi everyone. As the company's "DBA" (long story) I wanted to get some opinions on my backup plan. Currently, I have the following in place:

Full weekly backup of master.
msdb is treated as a user database, so msdb and two user databases receive Full weekly backups, Daily differentials and hourly transaction log backups.

The maintenence plan will remove logs older than 2 weeks.

Our networking group backs up the MSSQL to tape regularly.

I'm fairly new to DBA work, but if this scenario sounds like a sound plan, I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks in advance!

Hi there,

Backup / recovery plan should be designed based on the importance of your data. As a consultant i am managing 17 database servers, some servers are configured to run backup routine every hour, whereas, some servers are configured to run backup routine every day. Good luck & Take care.|||Thanks folks for the replies.
Well, the vendors that put the web server and the MSSQL DB in place were using a Simple Recovery Model and I felt the nature of the data dictated transaction log backups. The system accepts college applications and I felt any data loss was something I wanted to avoid due to the importance of that data! The intention is that we can experience minimal loss utilizing the strategy to restore from the weekly full, nightly differential and every half hour transaction log backups.|||</bumpitybump>sql