https://www.pachadata.com/en/tags/restore/Recent content in Restore on Rudi BruchezHugoenFri, 28 Aug 2026 16:31:38 +0200https://www.pachadata.com/en/docs/howtos/database-maintenance/transaction-log-backups/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.pachadata.com/en/docs/howtos/database-maintenance/transaction-log-backups/<link rel="preload" as="image" href="https://www.pachadata.com/en/docs/howtos/database-maintenance/transaction-log-backups/featured-background_hu_94e703081bb9e1a8.png" media="(max-width: 1200px)"> <link rel="preload" as="image" href="https://www.pachadata.com/en/docs/howtos/database-maintenance/transaction-log-backups/featured-background_hu_3c535c6841d0e502.png" media="(min-width: 1200px)"> <style> #td-cover-block-0 { background-image: url(/en/docs/howtos/database-maintenance/transaction-log-backups/featured-background_hu_94e703081bb9e1a8.png); } @media only screen and (min-width: 1200px) { #td-cover-block-0 { background-image: url(/en/docs/howtos/database-maintenance/transaction-log-backups/featured-background_hu_3c535c6841d0e502.png); } } </style> <section id="td-cover-block-0" class="row td-cover-block td-cover-block--height-med td-overlay td-overlay--dark -bg-dark" > <div class="col-12"> <div class="container td-overlay__inner"> <div class="text-center"> <div class="pt-3 lead"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <div class="alert alert-success" role="alert"><div class="h4 alert-heading" role="heading">TL;DR</div> <p>A SQL Server transaction log growing out of control, because the database recovery model is <code>FULL</code>, is one of the most common problems you will meet with SQL Server.</p> <p>Administrators often switch to the <code>SIMPLE</code> recovery model to avoid it, wary of managing a transaction log backup strategy — when that strategy is very nearly mandatory in production.</p>