Comments on: MSSQL Compressed Backup 1.0 Released

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:53:49 +0000

David,
Definitely. The parameter is “instancename”. For example:
msbp.exe restore “local(path=c:\model.bak)” “db(database=model;instancename=sqlexpress;)”

You can read all the gory details here:

http://mssqlcompressed.sourceforge.net/doc_plugins_db.shtml

By: David

David — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:07:11 +0000

Hi Clay,

Is it possible to backup a database in a named instance?

Thanks
David

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:02:18 +0000

Currently it isn’t possible to store multiple databases in the same virtual device. Interesting idea, though if the sole reason is for efficiency, I wouldn’t worry about it. It takes so little time to create a virtual device, like milliseconds.

The new version (1.1) prints when it starts to back up. You can use this to see how long the setup phase takes (including creating the virtual device) as compared to the backup phase.

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By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:29:19 +0000

Hi Clay,

Very nice utility.
Is it somehow possible to state multiple databases to backup? each to a seperate file?

I know I can batch it, but will it take advantage of “virtual device”? meaning, creating it once and backing up all dbs from there?

I have too little knowledge how this “virtual device” works, so I am afraid that multiple repeated calls to msbp may not be efficent?

Thanks,
Peter