Database Backup and Recovery Questions

Focuses on database specific backup and recovery techniques and trade offs. Topics include logical and physical backup methods, full backups, incremental and differential backups, transaction log or write ahead log backups, point in time recovery, backup consistency and atomicity, transaction log management and truncation, database native and third party backup tools and commands, snapshot based backups and replication, strategies to meet Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective for database workloads, verification queries and restore testing for completeness and consistency, handling large data sets and partial restores, backup retention and archiving, encryption and secure storage of backups, and automated restore procedures and scripts for routine testing.