# Backing up a database

The topics in this section describe how to back up a database.

- Offline backups
- Online backups
- When the log is in a non-default location
- Backing up encrypted databases
  When you back up an encrypted database, both the backup and the log files remain encrypted.

Parent topic: Backing up and restoring databases
Related concepts
Roll-forward recovery
Related tasks
Restoring a database from a backup copy
Creating a database from a backup copy