< Database Fundamentals
This lesson introduces database backup and restore.
Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the database backup and restore portion of Microsoft Exam 98-364 Database Fundamentals include:[1]
- Administer a database
- Understand database backups and restore
- Understand various backup types, such as full and incremental, importance of backups, how to restore a database
- Understand database backups and restore
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Lesson Summary
- A backup, or the process of backing up, refers to the copying and archiving of computer data so it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.[2]
- An incremental style repository aims to make it more feasible to store backups from more points in time by organizing the data into increments of change between points in time.[3]
- Each differential backup saves the data that has changed since the last full backup.[4]
Key Terms
- backup
- base
- data backup
- differential backup
- full backup
- incremental backup
- log backup
- restore
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