Chapter 8

Understanding SnapManager Backup Sets

This section provides background information about SnapManager Backup and SnapManager backup sets. The following topics are covered:

• How SnapManager Backup works
• Types of backup operations performed using SnapManager
• How SnapManager checks database integrity in backup sets
• How SnapManager backup data is organized
• Ways to manage the number of backup sets kept online
• When to run a SnapManager backup

  Note
  If you are running SQL Server 2000, SnapManager does not allow you to restore a backup set created using SQL Server 2005.

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