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Originally Posted by PHyndman
1) I'm only interested in backing up the contents of MS SQL DBs (the aspx pages can always be reloaded). Is this possible to do without taking the DB offline or would I need to script a DB backup job to provide a dumpfile for your backup utility (in which case is this possible with SQL Express?) ... or can you backup a live and attached SQL database?
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We can arrange the backup to run for one or many MSSQL database without bring the site down (however it may get a bit slow) and move them on the backup server. This is possible on any version of MSSQL server.
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Originally Posted by PHyndman
2) I'm keen to setup a GFS backup rotation - is this possible? (wasn't sure whether Martin was saying that 2nd Jan backup gets overwritten by 3rd Jan backup or whether 1st Feb backup gets overwritten with 1st Mar backup .... I've been working with US dates and SQL Server for far too long!!!)
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Yes, it is very much possible to setup a GFS backup rotation.
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Originally Posted by PHyndman
3) If I initially purchase the 5GB option I'm presuming that upgrading if required is easy, painless and quick? (also if I ever needed more than the 20GB option would this be possible ... although can't see that ever happening!)
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Upgrades are easy, you pay us the difference and we will increase your quota on the same account. However if you look to setup a GFS backup rotation then the space for 1GB data should be calculated as:
1x7 GB for weekdays backup.
1x4 GB for weekly backups
1x1 GB for monthly backups
Which will sum up to 12GB backup space. We can provide you backup space upto 500x4 GB