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  • Adam Thurgar
    • Jun 21, 2019
    • 1 min read

No backups


Whilst doing a current system state assessment for a client of their SQL Server fleet, I found a number of production SQL Servers without any backup jobs. They have user databases, but they were not being backed up (and there was no maintenance). I found it amazing that having some database backup was not part of their SQL Server build. There are plenty of scripts out there to automate backups and maintenance.

I don't care how you do it, just backup your databases. It will make your life easier (and then at some time in the future - do a test restore).


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