Methods to Verify Database Backups

Published: 06 February 2024
on channel: Database Dive
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In this sql tutorial we'll walk you through methods that help you verify the integrity of your sql database backups. These database verification methods are applicable to all kinds of database management systems including sql and nosql databases.

Verifying the integrity of data backups enables you to perform reliability assurance, issue detection, and satisfy regulatory compliance of your database.
In this video, we will go through file-level verification, checksum-based database backup verification, and data consistency checking.

1) File-level verification involves comparing the individual backup files to files in the original database.

2) Checksum-based comparison compares file checksums between the original file and the backup file. If there's a difference, the file has been changed.

3) Data consistency checks:
Another way to verify the integrity of database backups is to perform data consistency checks.
Data consistency checks ensure that data in the source database and the backup data set are the same.

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