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# perform backups — Database Administrator

For a Database Administrator, 'perform backups' isn’t just hitting a button; it's a core, daily responsibility woven into everything. It means designing *and maintaining* a backup strategy that meets Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements – translating business needs into technical implementation. Daily tasks include verifying backup completion, monitoring storage space used by backups, testing restores (crucially!), and troubleshooting failures. You'll be dealing with full, incremental, differential backups, potentially using tools like RMAN (Oracle), pg_dump/pg_restore (PostgreSQL), SQL Server Management Studio’s backup features, or third-party solutions like Veeam or Commvault.

## Weitere Anreicherung

Stage-2 source for future practitioner grounding: arXiv cs.SE (software-engineering preprints).
