
To minimize the risk of catastrophic data loss, you need to back up your databases to preserve modifications to your data on a regular basis. The SQL Server backup and restore component provides an essential safeguard for protecting critical data stored in your SQL Server databases. For specific steps to back up SQL Server databases, see Creating backups. This article introduces SQL Server backups. SQL Backup Master v6.3 is available for immediate download.This article describes the benefits of backing up SQL Server databases, basic backup and restore terms, and introduces backup and restore strategies for SQL Server and security considerations for SQL Server backup and restore. This new release also exposes additional service endpoints for Wasabi backup destinations, offers improved support for Azure blob service versions, and more. Riak S2 – An easy-to-operate, readily available, and highly scalable storage software optimized to store objects.LeoFS– An open source distributed object storage system and a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent storage system.Ceph– A unified storage service with object, block, and file interfaces from a single cluster built from commodity hardware components.Cloudian Hyperstore – An S3-compatible object storage platform designed to manage limitless amounts of data in a cloud-native data format.MinIO– A high-performance, S3 compatible object store built for large scale AI/ML, data lake and database workloads.

The new custom S3 backup destination makes it easier than ever to target a wide range of S3-compatible services and devices – including on-premises storage systems such as: SQL Backup Master v6.3 has arrived, and extends our (already excellent) S3 support by adding explicit support for IDrive e2 and a Custom S3-Compatible backup destination.
