https://github.com/mavstuff/simpledbbackup
Simple SQL Server database backup utility
https://github.com/mavstuff/simpledbbackup
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Simple SQL Server database backup utility
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mavstuff/simpledbbackup
- Owner: mavstuff
- Created: 2018-03-07T17:42:51.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-17T11:57:40.000Z (8 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-17T19:49:25.680Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: csharp, dotnet, dotnet-framework, mssql, mssqlserver, sql, sqlserver, windows
- Language: C#
- Size: 11.7 KB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: readme.md
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# Simple SQLServer backup tool
A simple C# utility project for creating backups of SQL Server databases on a schedule. The settings specify the names of the databases for which you want to create a backup, as well as the save directory. Old databases are automatically deleted.
The Settings block:
```csharp
/* Local SQL Server connecton string */
static string connectionString="Server=localhost;Integrated Security=True";
//Optional:connect using credentials
//static string connectionString = "Server=localhost;user id=user2018;password=MYDBPASSWORD";
```
Here you specify the Connection String to the database. In the simplest case, if you use a local server with the default settings, the first line is enough. If you want to connect to the server with login and password, uncomment and modify the second line.
```csharp
/* Database names to backup */
static string[] saDatabases = new string[] { "shop", "frontend", "accounting" };
```
This is an array with the database names on the server, for which you want to make a backup. If you need to make a backup of one database, you can do this:
```csharp
static string[] saDatabases = new string[] { "shop" };
```
```csharp
/* Backup directory. Please note: Files older than DeletionDays old will be deleted automatically */
static string backupDir = @"C:\DB_Backups";
```
This is the name of the directory for storing backups. **Please note that this directory should be used only for storing backups and not for anything else. Why? Because the files from this directory will be deleted after a certain period of rotation of the backup copies** (see below)
```csharp
/* Delete backups older than DeletionDays. Set this to 0 to never delete backups */
static int DeletionDays = 10;
```
After the program is configured and compiled in the Release version, it is necessary to copy it together with the libraries in a separate directory, for example, C:\SimpleDbBackup, also create a directory for the databases (in this example it's C:\DB\_Backups)
Now you need to create a periodic task with Windows Task Scheduler so that it runs on a schedule every day or twice a day, as you like. I suggest now you to create a task manually. Perhaps in the future I will add the function of creating a scheduled task in the code of the main program, but for now, I propose you do it manually.
I will be happy with any comments and suggestions. If you need some some **custom software** to be developed, feel free to [contact me](https://iq.direct/contacts.html "Custom Software Development - IQ Direct").
Good luck!