How to Back Up the Production Service Manager Database

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Service Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager

Use the following procedure to back up the production Service Manager database.

To back up the Service Manager database

  1. After connecting to the appropriate instance of the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine, in Object Explorer, click the server name to expand the server tree.

  2. Expand Databases, and depending on the database, either select a user database or expand System Databases and select a system database.

  3. Right-click the database, point to Tasks, and then click Back Up. The Back Up Database dialog box appears.

  4. In the Database list box, verify the database name. You can optionally select a different database from the list.

  5. You can perform a database backup for any recovery model (FULL, BULK_LOGGED, or SIMPLE).

  6. In the Backup type list box, select Full.

    Note


    After creating a full database backup, you can create a differential database backup. For more information, see How to: Create a Differential Database Backup (SQL Server Management Studio).

  7. Optionally, you can select Copy Only Backup to create a copy-only backup. A copy-only backup is a SQL Server backup that is independent of the sequence of conventional SQL Server backups. For more information, see Copy-Only Backups.

    Note


    When the Differential option is selected, you cannot create a copy-only backup.

  8. For Backup component, click Database.

  9. Either accept the default backup set name suggested in the Name text box, or enter a different name for the backup set.

  10. Optionally, in the Description text box, enter a description of the backup set.

  11. Specify when the backup set will expire and can be overwritten without explicitly skipping verification of the expiration data.

    Note


    For more information about backup expiration dates, see BACKUP (Transact-SQL).

  12. Choose the type of backup destination by clicking Disk or Tape. To select the paths of up to 64 disk or tape drives containing a single media set, click Add. The selected paths are displayed in the Backup to list box.

  13. To view or select the advanced options, click Options in the Select a page pane.

  14. Select an Overwrite Media option, by clicking either Back up to the existing media set or Back up to a new media set, and erase all existing backup sets.

  15. In the Reliability section, select either Verify backup when finished or Perform checksum before writing to media, and then optionally select Continue on checksum error. For more information, see Detecting and Coping with Media Errors During Backup and Restore