What is partial backup?

What is partial differential backup in SQL Server?

A differential partial backup is a type of partial backup. The partial backup feature was added in SQL Server 2005, and is designed for databases where the tables are broken up into filegroups, and some of the filegroups are read-only (typically found in data warehouse environments).

What is the command to take a partial backup?

Taking a partial database backup SQL Database is straightforward. We require to add READ_WRITE_FILEGROUPS argument in the backup database command. This option instructs SQL Server to initiate a partial filegroup backup for read-write filegroups.

What is database full backup?

A full database backup backs up the whole database. This includes part of the transaction log so that the full database can be recovered after a full database backup is restored. Full database backups represent the database at the time the backup finished.

What are the methods of backup?

There are mainly three types of backup: full, differential, and incremental.