Backup & Restore Basics series

I'm not sure that you heard about the 10,000 hours rule. Basically, it would normally take 10,000 hours of practice to master a skill.

For database backup and restore, I don't know many hours are needed. Well, it doesn't hurt to go back to the basics. : )

Thus, my next series of blogs is about "backup and restore."

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