Maintenance plans are a great way of getting started with a backup solution for your environment.
While maintenance plans don’t offer great flexibility, particularly when it comes to managing backups across many different servers, they’re often a good starting point because they’re easy to create and simple to understand.
In this demo video, I walk through creating a skeleton maintenance plan that contains 3 subplans to perform full, differential, and transaction log backups. The only thing left to do is schedule each of the automatically-generated SQL Agent jobs to meet your backup and recovery needs.
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