Every DBA has a daily activity review or monitor database backups as these database backups used for the restoration at other place and using for the database restore which used for reporting purpose or used in log shipping purpose. Because database backups are most important factor and first option in case of disaster recovery even whatever types of them because in this case transaction logs can reduce the data loses.

You can read my earlier posts for Database Backup Compression, Database Backup files Verification , Automated All Databases Backups Script and Split Database Full Backup to Multiple files.

I would like to share the script which help us to show the database backups status, history of their when they are done based on schedule, at where are taking and when, backup types , backups physical device and size of the database backups and time to perform backup and all other related backup statistics. Here is the script to collect the database backup statistics and status information.

USE MSDB
GO

SELECT 
bs.server_name AS Server, -- Server name
bs.database_name AS DatabseName , -- Database name
CASE bs.compatibility_level 
 WHEN 80 THEN 'SQL Server 2000'
 WHEN 90 THEN 'SQL Server 2005 '
 WHEN 100 THEN 'SQL Server 2008'
 WHEN 110 THEN 'SQL Server 2011'
END AS CompatibilityLevel , -- Return backup compatibility level
recovery_model AS Recoverymodel , -- Database recovery model
CASE bs.type 
 WHEN 'D' THEN 'Full' 
 WHEN 'I' THEN 'Differential' 
 WHEN 'L' THEN 'Log' 
 WHEN 'F' THEN 'File or filegroup' 
 WHEN 'G' THEN 'Differential file' 
 WHEN 'P' THEN 'P' 
 WHEN 'Q' THEN 'Differential partial' 
 END AS BackupType, -- Type of database baclup
bs.backup_start_date AS BackupstartDate, -- Backup start date
bs.backup_finish_date AS BackupFinishDate,  -- Backup finish date
bmf.physical_device_name AS PhysicalDevice, -- baclup Physical localtion
CASE device_type
 WHEN 2 THEN 'Disk - Temporary'
 WHEN 102  THEN 'Disk - Permanent'
 WHEN 5  THEN 'Tape - Temporary'
 WHEN 105  THEN 'Tape - Temporary'
 else 'Other Device'
END AS DeviceType, -- Device type
bs.backup_size AS  [BackupSize(In bytes)],  -- Normal backup size (In bytes)
compressed_backup_size AS [ConmpressedBackupSize(In bytes)] -- Compressed backup size (In bytes)
FROM msdb.dbo.backupset bs 
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily bmf
ON (bs.media_set_id=bmf.media_set_id)
ORDER BY bs.backup_start_date DESC

GO

The transact-SQL for backupmediafamily and backupset are accordingly are http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190284.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186299.aspx 

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