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BackupRestoreBase.Checksum Property

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Gets or sets a Boolean property value that determines whether a checksum value is calculated during backup or restore operations.

Namespace: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly: Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo (in microsoft.sqlserver.smo.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property Checksum As Boolean

public bool Checksum { get; set; }

public:
property bool Checksum {
    bool get ();
    void set (bool value);
}

/** @property */
public boolean get_Checksum ()

/** @property */
public void set_Checksum (boolean value)

public function get Checksum () : boolean

public function set Checksum (value : boolean)

Property Value

A Boolean value that specifies whether the checksum value is calculated. If True, the checksum value is calculated. If False (default), the checksum value is not calculated.

Remarks

You can use the Checksum property to compute the checksum value during backup and restore operations. This helps to increase the reliability of backup media.

If the Checksum property is set to False, the ContinueAfterError property will be ignored.

This namespace, class, or member is supported only in version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Example

How to: Back Up Databases and Transaction Logs in Visual Basic .NET

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Microsoft Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Development Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

Target Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

See Also

Reference

BackupRestoreBase Class
BackupRestoreBase Members
Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo Namespace

Other Resources

CHECKSUM (Transact-SQL)
RESTORE (Transact-SQL)
BACKUP (Transact-SQL)
Backing Up and Restoring Databases in SQL Server