426 CHAPTER 14 Database Backup and Restore . Recovery--Partial database recovery, such as restoring a file or filegroup, might be required due to the prohibitive time required to restore the entire database. When designing a VLDB, you must integrate your backup plan with storage, performance, and availability requirements. Larger databases take longer to back up because the backup sizes are larger, and restores on this type of database can take much longer to complete than with a smaller database. Maintenance Plans SQL Server includes maintenance plans that provide database maintenance tasks, includ- ing optimization, integrity checks, and backups. The backup options available in the maintenance plans are comprehensive and include the capability to regularly schedule full, differential, and transaction log backups. This type of automation is essential to ensure that your backups are taken with a reliable tool at regular intervals. You can create maintenance plans from within SSMS. If you open the Management node in the Object Explorer, you see a node named Maintenance Plans . If you right-click this node, you can select New Maintenance Plan to create a plan from scratch, or you can select Maintenance Plan Wizard to have a wizard guide you through the creation of a new maintenance plan. The following options that relate to backups are available as part of a maintenance plan: