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I’m reading about Red Gate SQL Backup, and I liked the concept of creating a database backup compressed and writing on disk the compressed backup directly without an intermediate SQL Server native backup.
And I’m wondering how this type of software make backups. It accesses the database files directly? It uses some sort of SQL Server or Windows API? Windows Shadow Copy?
The SQL Server has an API for backup providers to plug in elements into he backup pipeline. See INFORMATIONAL: SHEDDING LIGHT on VSS & VDI Backups in SQL Server, or have a look at the SQL Server Compressed Backup project on sourceforge.
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