Backing Up Your Database

As a part of your database backup plan, you will need to choose a backup tool from a variety of options. For example, you can use a tool provided by your DBMS, a script file, or a third-party backup utility. Most of these tools provide an equivalent amount of functionality. However, you should make sure that the selected tool is properly suited for backing up databases.

This topic provides instructions for backing up a Microsoft SQL Server database using SQL Server Management Studio. You can also use a third-party backup tool or the osql command line utility. (Please note that if you use a third-party backup tool, it must be able to handle open files, as the Laserfiche database files are constantly in use by SQL Server.)

Reminder: Care must be taken to ensure that DBMS database backup is synchronized with volume data backup. Otherwise, the DBMS database may not be in a state that is consistent with the images, text, electronic files, thumbnails, and word location data stored in a volume.