Backing Up SSAS Databases

As we get more involved with the BI stack of tools we find ourselves learning some of the nuances of supporting all of these new environments. One such example is SSAS. When people build and deploy cubes to an instance of SSAS they (eventually) get around to asking about restores and recovery. And since the first two letters of SSAS stand for ‘SQL Server’, my team is naturally asked to ensure that there is a proper recovery strategy in place.