Comments on: Learn to use the COPY_ONLY flag for one off backups

By: mrdenny

mrdenny — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:50:50 +0000

Rajesh, Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve updated the title and the post. Not sure how I missed that. Sometimes the fingers type faster than the eyes can proof read.

Thanks,
Denny

By: RajeshRamadas

RajeshRamadas — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:27:40 +0000

The actual option that you need to use for this is called “COPY_ONLY”.

EXAMPLE:
BACKUP DATABASE dbname TO DISK=’c:tempdbname.bak’ WITH COPY_ONLY;