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How do you handle backup and recovery for very large databases that exceed several terabytes?

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Backing up and restoring very large databases, commonly called VLDBs, presents unique challenges that require specialized approaches. Standard backup procedures that work fine for 100 GB databases become impractical at multi-terabyte scale.

VLDBincremental backupparallel operationsblock-level backuppartitioningfilesystem snapshot

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