Ola Hallengren’s DDBoost Backups

The already awesome Ola’s Maintenance solution for SQL Server became more awesome with his latest release. If you are not aware of Ola’s maintenance solution, you should definitely check it out. In the July 2018 release, quite a few enhancements were introduced. My personal favorites are ability to add percentage of modified rows to update stats, resumable index rebuilds support and support for EMC DDboost(Data Domain Boost). In fact I was badly waiting for DDboost support last year(we were using DDboost to backup our VLDBs). Unfortunately, DDboost was not something Ola’s solution suported at that time and what I ended up was writing up my own stored procs calling “dbo.emc_run_backup” and “ddbmexptool.exe” based on our Lockbox settings and scheduled the jobs as needed. Well, I got it worked without any issues but had to spend quite a bit of time to understand all the bells and whistles of DDboost and come up with my own procs and error logging.

If you happen to have any plans evaluating DDBoost for SQL backups now or in near future, well you have an awesome solution already available. All you need to do is pass ‘DATA_DOMAIN_BOOST’ as a parameter for third-part backup software in Ola’s backup job and specify below parameters.