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Backup Problems

Kendra Little has a few warning signs for backups:

5. Your log backups run every 30 minutes. I have yet to find a company with log backups running every 30 minutes who was actually OK with losing 30+ minutes of data. Maybe you are part of the company where it’s actually true, but if you’re not 100% sure, get someone to sign off on it. With an ink pen. Really.

Funnily enough, I’ve experienced exactly this, except the business side was flabbergasted that I wanted to take transaction log backups so quickly—they had a 24-hour RPO, so why bother with such frequent backups?  I kept a straight face and explained that if I had my druthers, I’d take a transaction log backup every 1-3 minutes.