Dovrei eseguire il backup regolarmente e ridurre i miei database dei contenuti tramite SQL?

Question

Sono stato contendente con lo spazio del disco rigido sul mio ambiente di SharePoint 2010 (con SQL 2008) per un po 'e ho appena scoperto alcune cose che penso potrebbero aiutare.

Dovrei eseguire regolarmente un backup del registro delle transazioni e riducendo i miei database dei contenuti?Questo aiuta ad aumentare il mio spazio su disco utilizzabile?Ho persino bisogno di disturbare l'esecuzione dei backup?

Non sono un DBA (ovviamente) ma conosco una o due cose su SQL, quindi grazie prima del tempo per averlo in mente con le tue spiegazioni.:)

Answer 1

You should be backing up and truncating your TLOGS. If you have not been doing that, than yes, do a backup, truncate, and shrink will restore space. To keep that space however, you will need to set growth limits on your database and log files. Microsoft has a paper on "best practices" with SQL maintenance:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262731.aspx

While I recomend you run thru that whitepaper, I suggest you look at bigger drives to support your installation, they are cheap, and it is worth the front loaded effort to make that swap rather than chasing down a few MB here and there.

Answer 2

First thing you should do is choose the appropriate recovery model for your databases.

If you need point in time restore, go for the FULL recovery model. The price you have to pay is to make regular log backups or your logfile will grow indefinitely. Taking a full backup does not stop them from growing. If you use mirroring or log shipping, you also need to be in the FULL recovery model. So you need to take full (or differential) & logs backups.

If you don't need point in time restores - go with the SIMPLE recovery model. SQL Server will automatically manage your transaction log files and reuse them so they don't grow as big. Full (or differential) backups will do just fine in this case.

Shrinking database files should only be done in very specific circumstances (NEVER automatically or as part of a maintenance plan) because they cause horrible fragmentation of your databases. A good candidate is the situation where you just moved a large site collection to another content database and you leave your original database with 80% of unused space for example. Database files grow, that's what they do.