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Compresses, strengthens and encrypts SQL Server backups

  • Save time and space: compress SQL Server backups by up to 95% for faster, smaller backups
  • Strengthen backup and restore activities: use network resilience for backups, restores and log shipping
  • Protect your data: use up to 256-bit AES encryption to secure your data against unauthorized access
  • SQL Backup Pro has over 35,000 customers worldwide, including customers in the Fortune 100, FTSE 100, government, healthcare, financial services and education sectors
  • High-performance compression
    Save time and space with a choice of four compression levels in SQL Backup Pro to compress SQL Server backups by up to 95%.
  • Network resilience
    Strengthen backup and log shipping activities with network resilience in SQL Backup Pro for a fault-tolerant file transfer across flaky networks.
  • Encryption
    Protect your data from unauthorized access with SQl Backup Pro's 256-bit AES encryption.
  • Intelligent restore
    SQL Backup Pro automatically selects all files needed for the type of restore to be performed.
  • Advanced restore options
    Use SQL Backup Pro to automatically kill connections to the destination database or check for orphaned users when restoring a database onto a different SQL Server instance.
  • SQL Object Level Recovery Pro™
    Recover database objects from SQL Backup (.sqb) backups and restore to a server licensed with SQL Backup Pro.
  • Timeline Monitoring™
    Use the interactive, color-coded timeline to manage your backup, restore and log shipping activities.
  • Command-line interface
    Experience total control and use similar syntax to T-SQL's BACKUP and RESTORE commands.

  • Reporting
    Generate reports across your entire enterprise or just for a single server with SQL Backup Pro. .

SQL Backup is available in two editions: Pro and Lite

FeatureProLite
Up to 95% smaller backups*
Compression levels available 4 1
User-friendly GUI for the centralized management of backup and restore activities
Timeline Monitoring™
Integrates with SQL Server to schedule database backup jobs
Multiple threads to optimize backup performance
Context-sensitive help and hints embedded in the GUI
Extended stored procedure to run backup and restore operations using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, or database connectivity layers such as ADO or OLE DB
Command-line interface, so you can run your backup and restore operations in script and batch files
Scriptable support for SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition's native compression level
FeatureProLite
256- and 128-bit AES Encryption -
Network resilience for backups -
Scriptable support for network resilience for
restores
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'Self-healing' log shipping -
Cluster-aware installation mechanism with cluster support -
Email notification of backup activities -
Enterprise and server level reports -
Automatically kill existing connections before restoring -
Automatically check for orphaned users -
Skip initialization of the database for log shipping -
SQL Object Level Recovery Pro™ -
Access and manage all server backups remotely, from a central, client-based GUI -
Support for 64-bit versions of SQL Server -

* Please see the features list for further details of the compression levels available with the Pro and Lite licenses.

How do you take your backups?

Red Gate's two SQL Server backup tools both bring high-performance compression and 256-bit AES encryption to make your backups smaller, faster and more secure.

The key differences between SQL Backup Pro and SQL HyperBac from Red Gate lie in how the tool takes the backups, where the tool sits on your server, and the extra benefits you want on top. Compare features for SQL Backup Pro and SQL HyperBac.

Find out how to take advantage of both SQL Backup Pro and SQL HyperBac in addition to more database administration tools in the SQL DBA Bundle or the SQL Backup and Restore Bundle.

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SQL Backup Pro has 35,000+ customers worldwide, including customers in the Fortune 100, FTSE 100, government, healthcare, financial services and education sectors. SQL Backup compresses and strengthens SQL Server backups, so you can save time and safeguard your organization's data. Try SQL Backup Pro's fourth compression level for even higher backup compression rates and make significant budget savings on storage space.

If you write or copy SQL Server database backups across networks, use SQL Backup Pro's network resilience for a fault-tolerant transfer. When temporary network outages occur, network resilience intelligently resumes backup operations from where they were disrupted. This means the need for your intervention is minimized and time lost to flaky networks is greatly reduced.

The easiest way to see how SQL Backup Pro can help you is to try it out. You can download a free, 14-day trial of the Pro edition and take advantage of full support throughout your evaluation period.

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