Once you are started using SQL Server database for your application, you need to start taking database backups regularly. If it may be a development database or production database, you should take backups in a timely manner. Because if your information get loss, that brings you in loss. We cannot prevent the data loss due to disk failure, file corruption, code bugs, external factors, etc.

The best practice is to take database backup and store it in an external media like tape drive and keep it in a safe place. The easiest way to take database backup is by using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

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