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Documentation about database backups #87

Closed tobias-graf-p closed 1 year ago

tobias-graf-p commented 2 years ago

I noticed that Duplicati is capable of taking database backups in the web application but didn't find any documentation about this feature at all.

Also I struggled configuring my backup job correctly on a server on which also a MS SQL Server is running until I found out that I have to add the Guid of the "SQL Server VSS Writer" to --vss-exclude-writers. Putting this Guid here prevents full backups of the SQL Server databases being triggered by the backup job (what would break the full-diff-log backup chain of a database maintained by SQL Server itself or by other tools). It would be great to cover this topic also in more detail in the docs.

tobias-graf-p commented 2 years ago

Note also this thread where I am asking the community for their opinion for the idea to support more configuration options for the "SQL Server VSS Writer".

kees-z commented 1 year ago

Closing this one because of lack of activity and lack of substantive knowledge of this on my part.