When an issue occurs during your backup and recovery process such as performance spikes, it is extremely beneficial to get as clear a picture as possible of what activities are occurring in your SQL Server environment.  LiteSpeed for SQL Server offers this clarity by logging these activities for immediate analysis and isolation of any bottlenecks.  This video takes you through the process of enabling logging through the LiteSpeed for SQL Server console and will cover four different areas within the product.

• Backup Wizard
• Restore Wizard
• Maintanance Plans
• Console Logging

Special thanks to April Bucher on the LiteSpeed QA team for putting this short video together. 

Hello! As the new PM for LiteSpeed for SQL Server, I’m extremely happy to be here on this blog. While I catch up on all things backup and recovery for SQL Server, one thing has become clear. DBA’s don’t seem to like doing differential backups. From what I gather from numerous customer calls, it seems that the current process for establishing a backup process that includes diff’s and then ensuring these diff’s work according to the predefined schedule and escalation rules is a huge pain in the a**. Well, that’s actually great to hear, believe it or not. Why? Because our advanced compression technology for managing differentials fully automates the process of performing diff’s and enforces contingencies for the differential process so that both size and dates of diff’s have an impact on when the next full will take place. We’ll be providing much more around this advanced compression as we just released 5.1.1 and are hard at work on 5.2.
Thanks! Andy Grant