Monitoring your backups

The situation

You need to keep careful track of activities across multiple servers. One of your servers is located in Los Angeles; the others are located in London. In order to maintain a secure, consistent backup routine, you need to ensure regular, successful backups are run.

Key challenges

  • Being aware of when backups, restore operations and transaction log shipping are scheduled to run.
  • Knowing whether any of your scheduled activities are likely to clash or fail in the future.
  • Seeing which activities are happening, when, on multiple servers, in different locations and time zones.

How we can solve it

Use SQL Backup to monitor your SQL Servers and databases. Timeline Monitoring™, centrally displayed within the GUI, enables you to visualize series of operations and change their properties with just a few clicks.

Benefits of our solution

  • You can see a graphic representation of operations in your registered SQL Servers without having to resort to complex calendars or diagrams on whiteboards. This saves you valuable time and allows you to plan a reliable backup routine with ease.
  • You can anticipate problems before they arise, as Timeline Monitoring lets you correct conflicting operations directly from the timeline.
  • Timeline Monitoring's graphic presentation of activities means you can see, at a glance, how long scheduled activities across databases and servers are likely to take.
  • You can organize your servers using tabs, adding new locations and time zones for each server. Clicking between tabs from the timeline allows you to easily keep track of activities on different servers in different locations or time zones.
  • SQL Backup offers a number of additional features, such as encryption to make your backups secure, and compression to make them smaller.

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