6 ways SQL Backup Pro simplifies backups

Speed

Step-by-step wizards and a centralized GUI take the legwork out of creating, restoring, and verifying your backups

Automation

Automate backups, backup verification, restores, and log shipping

Network resilience

Protect against backups failing due to network outages

95% compression

Save storage space, speed up network file transfer, and get up to 95% backup compression - higher than native SQL Server

Security

Secure your backups with 256-bit AES encryption

Verification

Let backups verify themselves. Schedule regular restores that also run the gold-standard database integrity check: DBCC CHECKDB

Backup, restore, and verify

Backup, restore, and verify – the three main features of any good backup strategy – are simple with SQL Backup Pro.

It takes fast, small, secure SQL Server database backups, based on whatever schedule you set.

Once you've made your backups, it can check they're free from corruption with optional CHECKSUM and RESTORE VERIFYONLY steps.

With the Schedule Restore Jobs wizard, you can also set up automatic verification with the gold-standard integrity check, DBCC CHECKDB, for complete confidence that your backup is error-free.

With automated backup verification, you'll gain peace of mind, and save time, hassle, and money.

What our customers are saying

“I'm really seeing the benefits of using SQL Backup Pro over SQL Management Studio. It's a real time saver when it comes to automatically restoring and validating backups. And don't get me started on the compression!”

Andy Doyle, Head of IT Services, Boston Limited

“The main thing that I love about SQL Backup Pro is the fact it just works! There is no messing around, no hacking together, it just works as soon as you open the box. It's easy to use and extremely reliable.

One of my favourite features is the centralised management. No matter how many backup nodes you have, you can manage them all from one interface. It makes life so much easier..”

Brendan Thompson, .NET developer and Systems Administrator, BT Systems

“We wanted to standardise our backup regime and not have some backups taken using native SQL Server and some with SQL Backup Pro. Consistency is a good thing when you're managing lots of servers.

Protecting the backups is important so the encryption built into SQL Backup is solid. The password protection available in native SQL backups isn't really protection at all.”

Brent McCracken, Technical Lead, Kiwibank DBA team

“Redgate's tools are generally considered to be the gold standard.

SQL Compare is fast, extremely easy to use – Redgate pays a huge amount of attention to its UIs – full-featured and affordable.

I wouldn't bother messing around with anything else.”

Adam Machanic, SQL Server MVP

Features

Up to 95% smaller backups
256- and 128-bit AES encryption
User-friendly GUI for the centralized management of backup and restore activities
Set up regular backup verification with scheduled restores
Timeline Monitoring in the GUI for visualization of activities at a glance
Integrates with SQL Server Agent to schedule database backup and restore jobs
Include DBCC CHECKDB in a scheduled restore job
View results of DBCC CHECKDB, CHECKSUM, and RESTORE VERIFYONLY from the Activity History
Context-sensitive help file and hints embedded in the GUI
Command-line interface, so you can run your backup and restore operations in script and batch files

Multiple compression levels available
Network resilience for fault-tolerant backup transfer, including automatic resuming of interrupted transfers
Scriptable support for network resilience for restores
Cluster-aware installation mechanism with cluster support
Email notification of backup and restore activities
Enterprise and server level reports
Automatically kill existing connections before restoring to prevent failure of the operation
Automatically check for orphaned users, and receive a list of those affected
Skip initialization of the database for log shipping
Access and manage all SQL Server backups remotely, from a central, client-based GUI
'Self-healing' log shipping queues the transfer of transaction log backups, if it is interrupted, and restores in the correct order

Videos and Resources

Verify your backups - NOW!

Grant Fritchey explains why you need to verify and restore your SQL Server backups regularly, to avoid being hit by data corruption when you need your backups in a disaster recovery scenario.

Watch fullscreen video

Prepare for when disaster strikes

Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey discuss how to protect your data, and your business, covering hardware problems, how to reduce response time, and more.

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Handling a full SQL Server transaction log

This whitepaper shows you how best to manage the transaction log, reviews the dangers of common advice from community sites and forums, and tells you how to avoid problems in the first place.

Read the whitepaper

Bulletproof your database backup and recovery strategy

See how to beat the most common holes in SQL Server backup and recovery strategies. Read it to ensure that you can recover any database in the event of disaster, within acceptable limits for data loss and downtime.

Read the whitepaper (PDF)

"SQL Backup Pro's ease of use and reliability save us around 30 person-hours a week"

Find out how other companies have been using SQL Backup Pro to simplify their SQL Server backup and restore schedules.

Read the case study (PDF)

SQL Backup Part of the SQL Toolbelt

Introduction to SQL Backup Pro