Database downtime can inflict a fatal wound on the life of a business and having a trusted backup solution that can ensure that databases can be back up and running quickly in the event of an outage is critical.
With long downtimes simply unacceptable, organizations seek solutions with capabilities such as the ability to manage backups seamlessly, manage and monitor backups, ensure data integrity, scale efficiently restore quickly to any point in time, and provide security features to stay in compliance with local geographic and industry mandates.
According to Craig S. Mullins, president of Mullins Consulting, Inc., wise DBAs understand all of the backup and recovery options available with their DBMS and match the backup plan to the business requirements to minimize downtime during recovery from an outage.
Database backups and restores are key to developing a secure environment for users' information. A trusted backup plan is a requirement for on-premise and cloud instances.
Best Database Backup Solution
Percona XtraBackup
Finalists
Quest LiteSpeed for SQL Server
Veritas NetBackup