Aaron Bertrand looks at some extensions to a venerable solution:
Where I work, we have hundreds of mission-critical databases. We use Ola Hallengren’s SQL Server backup solution, but, out of necessity, have wrapped it with several enhancements to help us accomplish goals around retention, SQL Server backup frequency, and recovery point objectives. I touched on some of this last year when I talked about automating some of our restore testing, in It’s a recovery strategy, not a backup strategy. Today, we do a lot more than that, and we have to be more flexible about it.
Click through to see what Aaron’s environment looks like and some of the things they’ve done to make recovery work better.