In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

Idera, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and provider of management and administration solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, has introduced two new products, both of which are available as public betas ...

When the creation and configuration of a Recovery Services vault is complete, discovering databases and configuring backup is a two-step process. During the backup configuration, if the SQL VM and its ...

Virtual server backup is top of the to-do list for many IT departments this year. That is because server and desktop virtualisation is sweeping the datacentre and data protection is a key part of such ...

Description: The VSS writer failed to get the properties of the virtual machine vm1, since the operation did not complete in maximum allowed time. The virtual machine is allowed for Offline backup ...

Chris: I just tried the VBScript you provided for backing up Virtual Server 2005 VMs (see my last column, "VM Backup Burden") and noticed a problem. The backup starts before the Virtual Server has ...