BackupDeviceItem Class

The BackupDeviceItem object provides programmatic access to named SQL Server backup devices.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.BackupDeviceItem

Namespace:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Assembly:  Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended (in Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class BackupDeviceItem _
    Implements IComparable
'Usage
Dim instance As BackupDeviceItem

public class BackupDeviceItem : IComparable

public ref class BackupDeviceItem : IComparable

type BackupDeviceItem =  
    class 
        interface IComparable 
    end

public class BackupDeviceItem implements IComparable

The BackupDeviceItem type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	BackupDeviceItem()	Initializes a new instance of the BackupDeviceItem class.
	BackupDeviceItem(String, DeviceType)	Initializes a new instance of the [BackupDeviceItem] class that has the specified name and kind of device.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	DeviceType	Gets the kind of device for the BackupDeviceItem object.
	Name	Gets the name of device for the BackupDeviceItem object.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	CompareTo	Verifies whether the specified object shares the same name as the referenced BackupDeviceItem object.
	Equals	Determines whether the current object is the same as the specified object. (Overrides Object.Equals(Object).)
	Finalize	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode	Gets the hash code for the object. (Overrides Object.GetHashCode().)
	GetType	(Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	(Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	(Inherited from Object.)

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Operators

	Name	Description
	Equality	Determines whether two objects are equal by performing an equality operation on two BackupDeviceItem objects.
	GreaterThan	Determines whether one object is greater than another by performing an operation on two BackupDeviceItem objects.
	Inequality	Determines whether two objects are unequal by performing an inequality operation on two BackupDeviceItem objects.
	LessThan	Determines whether one object is less than another by performing an operation on two BackupDeviceItem objects.

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Remarks

With the BackupDeviceItem object, you can do the following:

• Access the backup device by name.

• Verify whether two named backup devices are the same.

Examples

Backing Up and Restoring Databases and Transaction Logs

Thread Safety

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

See Also

Reference

Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo Namespace

Other Resources

BACKUP (Transact-SQL)