Scheduling SolarWinds Backup Operation Using the SQL Agent

By default, the SolarWinds instance has a unique name, that is solarwinds_orion. You can use this instance to schedule backup operations for SolarWinds databases. Usually, name of SolarWinds databases is SolarWindsOrion.

Following are the high-level steps to schedule a backup operation for SolarWinds databases:

1. Manually add solarwinds_orion instance either to a new client or to an existing client.

   For more information, see Manually Discovering SQL Instances.

2. Create a new user-defined subclient and add SolarWindsOrion database to the new subclient.

   Alternatively, you can also add SolarWindsOrion database to an existing user-defined subclient.

   For information about creating a user-defined subclient and adding databases to the subclient, see Creating User-Defined Subclients to Back Up a Group of SQL Databases.

3. Schedule the SolarWinds backup operation using the SQL agent.

   For information about scheduling a SQL backup operation, see Backing Up SQL Databases.