Backup and restore - What is the preffered way?

What is the preferred way for Backup and Restore? Maintenance plan wizard
or command line scripts?
Also, to setup email notifications on a sql box, what do we need (outlook
client..) on the server box? Is there a step by step document online to
setup this?
Plus please post some links to backup command scripts pages.
Thanks
BVR
"Uhway" <vbhadharla@.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> What is the preferred way for Backup and Restore? Maintenance plan wizard
> or command line scripts?
T-SQL scheduled using SQL Server Agent Service
> Also, to setup email notifications on a sql box, what do we need (outlook
> client..) on the server box? Is there a step by step document online to
> setup this?
You need outlook 2000 onwards installed on the box SQL is installed. SQL
Server is going to be a member of a domain and a MAPI mail server has be to
used (e.g Exchange)
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...s/default.mspx
> Plus please post some links to backup command scripts pages.
The BOOKS Online (get the updated version from www.microsoft.com/sql) is
more then enough as a resource for writing T-SQL for Backup/Restore
> Thanks
> BVR
>
Cheers
Gill
|||http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad
Tara has some good backup/restore scripts. She has a standard version and a
SQL LiteSpeed version.
"Uhway" <vbhadharla@.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> What is the preferred way for Backup and Restore? Maintenance plan wizard
> or command line scripts?
> Also, to setup email notifications on a sql box, what do we need (outlook
> client..) on the server box? Is there a step by step document online to
> setup this?
> Plus please post some links to backup command scripts pages.
> Thanks
> BVR
>
|||"Sarbjit Gill" <ssgill.no.spam@.no.spam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Uhway" <vbhadharla@.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:ev0apRU9EHA.2804@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
wizard[vbcol=seagreen]
> T-SQL scheduled using SQL Server Agent Service
(outlook
> You need outlook 2000 onwards installed on the box SQL is installed. SQL
> Server is going to be a member of a domain and a MAPI mail server has be
to
> used (e.g Exchange)
>
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...s/default.mspx
This is not true. Yes, you need a MAPI client, but you can seti it up to
use an SMTP server. In fact that's what I find to be the most stable, set
up an SMTP server on the same box as the SQL Server and use that to forward
outgoing email. This eliminates the problem of the mail client locking up
due to time outs.

> The BOOKS Online (get the updated version from www.microsoft.com/sql) is
> more then enough as a resource for writing T-SQL for Backup/Restore
> Cheers
> Gill
>
>
|||Thanks
BVR
"Derrick Leggett" <derrickleggett@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad
> Tara has some good backup/restore scripts. She has a standard version and
a[vbcol=seagreen]
> SQL LiteSpeed version.
>
> "Uhway" <vbhadharla@.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:ev0apRU9EHA.2804@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
wizard[vbcol=seagreen]
(outlook
>