What is file and filegroup backup in SQL Server?

What is file and filegroup in SQL Server?

The filegroup contains the primary data file and any secondary files that aren't put into other filegroups. User-defined filegroups can be created to group data files together for administrative, data allocation, and placement purposes.

What is a file and filegroup backup?

In addition to doing "File" backups you can also do "Filegroup" backups which allows you to backup all files that are in a particular filegroup. By default each database has a PRIMARY filegroup which is tied to the one data file that is created.

What are SQL backup files?

backup [noun] A copy of SQL Server data that can be used to restore and recover the data after a failure. A backup of SQL Server data is created at the level of a database or one or more of its files or filegroups.

What is partial backup?

A partial backup is any operating system backup short of a full backup, taken while the database is open or shut down. The following are all examples of partial database backups: a backup of all datafiles for an individual tablespace.