Database Backup Encryption Creating compressed and encrypted backups of your SQL Server databases allows you to make smaller, safer, faster database backups.
Native SQL Server backups are essentially a dump of data stored in SQL Server files. This is an inefficient and insecure way of storing backup data, as it is stored unencrypted, unprotected, and uncompressed. Encrypting the backup file means that only people with the designated password can access that backup file, making it much less vulnerable. SQL Backup runs on the server hosting your SQL Server databases and uses the SQL Server Virtual Device Interface (VDI). It will compress and encrypt data as it is being backed up. SQL Backup uses 256-bit AES (Rijndael) encryption to secure your backup files from unauthorized access. Specific features include: - Up to three levels of compression, with a compression analyzer facility, so you know best whether to optimize for speed or for size
- 256-bit encryption to ensure your backups are secure
- User-friendly GUI to guide you through the backup and restore processes, as well as setting up scheduled jobs and log shipping
- Interactive Timeline Monitoring for easy visualization and greater control over past, present, and future activities
- Command-line interface for users who want total control of SQL Backup
- Extended stored procedure interface, allowing you to run SQL Backup remotely via your favorite database connectivity tool
- Split backups, enabling you to take advantage of multi-CPU and high-speed disk array systems to speed up the backup and restore process even further
- Mirrored backups allow for creation of two or more backup files simultaneously to different disks, to minimize the probability of media errors
- Multiple threads in the SQL Backup engine to optimize backup performance
- Log shipping wizard, making log shipping easier
- Support for SQL Server 2000 and 2005 databases
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