Category: Minion Backup

We’ve got some great new functionality in 1.3 for restoring DBs. Here I tell you what you need to know.

This is a great new feature of MB 1.3. It allows you to have dynamic paths and filenames for your backups. Here, I Continue reading “Inline Tokens”

Who is MinionWare Software? Here we explain the core of our product line and give you a short demo of a couple cool features.

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Minion Backup 1.3 has a fabulous new feature: Dynamic Parts. This allows you to have unprecedented control over your paths and filenames.

The ResourceDB in SQL Server doesn’t backup like regular DBs. Come see how to do this in Minion Backup 1.2 and below.

When logs get too large because of large transactions or missed backups it can cause issues in your environment. And the DBA usually has to Continue reading “Minion Backup: Shrinking Logs”

Striping backups is an important step in tuning your backups so they run nice and fast. MB makes it so easy to have specialized configurations Continue reading “Minion Backup: Striping Backup Files”

MB has a few ways to include and exclude databases from the backup process. Here I walk you through the nuances of this feature. Some Continue reading “Minion Backup: Include / Exclude Databases”

We consider this one of our flagship features. The status of the current backup and of the entire job is updated in the log. You Continue reading “Minion Backup: Status Monitor”

Server labels are one of our great high availability features. This feature allows you to organize Availability Group backups as well as mirroring, log shipping, Continue reading “Minion Backup: Server Labels”

Some DBs are too small to need a differential backup. MB makes it really easy to supply different actions in these situations. You can have Continue reading “Minion Backup: Replacing Diff Actions”

One of the coolest aspects of MB is how it handles your backup paths. There are some really cool options for configuration and it even Continue reading “Minion Backup: Path Basics”

This is an important feature. MB allows you to copy or move your backup files after you take the backup. There are some pretty cool Continue reading “Minion Backup: File Actions”

Mirroring backups is not only easy it’s very flexible. Here I’ll show you the ins and outs of setting up and managing mirrored backups.

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One of Minion Backup’s most incredible features is its dynamic tuning. Here I talk about threshold basics and how to configure the settings to do Continue reading “Minion Backup: Tuning Threshold Basics”

SQL Server 2014 and above has native backup encryption and this is fully supported by Minion Backup. Here I’ll show you how to setup and Continue reading “Minion Backup: Encrypted Backups”

Here I show you how to configure MB backup thresholds using the advanced options. If you’re going to get it right you need to watch Continue reading “Minion Backup: Advanced Tuning Thresholds”

Minion Backup will automatically backup your server-level and database-level certificates. Here I’ll show you what you need to know to be successful with this feature.

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