One of my SQL Servers (SQL 2000 SP4) is reporting this error in the Maintenance Plan. But shortly after it shows this error is does successfully backup my Databases (per log history), however the plan is indicating "failure".
I have no idea how to resolve this nor why it is happening.
Rob.
On the SQL Server the Event Viewer shows the same messages and errors every evening between 22:05:00 and 22:08:00. The following information messages are shown for every database:
"I/O is frozen on database <database name>. No user action is required. However, if I/O is not resumed promptly, you could cancel the backup."
"I/O was resumed on database <database name>. No user action is required."
"Database backed up. Database: <database name>, creation date(time): 2003/04/08(09:13:36), pages dumped: 306, first LSN: 44:148:37, last LSN: 44:165:1, number of dump devices: 1, device information: (FILE=1, TYPE=VIRTUAL_DEVICE: {'{A79410F7-4AC5-47CE-9E9B-F91660F1072B}4'}). This is an informational message only. No user action is required."
After the 3 messages the following error message is shown for every database:
"BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP LOG <database name>. Check the backup application log for detailed messages."
I have added a Maintenance Plan but these jobs run after 02:00:00 at night.
Where can I find the command or setup which will backup all databases and log files at 22:00:00 in the evening?
Backup failed to complete the command backup database [ ] TO VIRTUAL DEVICE = ' { 853D3FC0 - 45EA -85B1 - 54F0EA379CAC } 24 ' WITH SNAPSHOT , BUFFERCOUNT = 1 , BLOCKSIZE = 1024
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I execute the following transaction log backup TSQL in SSMS
BACKUP LOG ProductDB
TO DISK = 'D:Database_BackupTransProductDB.trn';
I get this error:
Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Cannot open backup device 'D:Database_BackupTransProductDB.trn'. Operating system error 21(The device is not ready.).
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.
I also have a daily database backup job that puts the backup file under this directory.
D:Database_BackupData
So I changed the path to this and it still fails.
BACKUP LOG ProductDB
TO DISK = 'D:Database_BackupDataProductDB.trn';
However if I change it to this path, it works:
BACKUP LOG ProductDB
TO DISK = 'MyServerDataProductDB.trn';
This turns out to be the path I used a few weeks back when I backed up the log for the very first time. But I now wanted to store my transaction log backups in D:Database_BackupTrans.
Any list of commands that require exclusive access in order for the command to complete? I had an instance today where a DBA executed sp_changedbowner command which is the alter database command on a production database and it locked it up.
View 0 Replies View RelatedFacundo writes "Hi:
How can i add a timestamp to a generated file of a complete database backup, the idea is to archive full database backups using the date to identified it.
Thanks a lot.
FB"
There is a lot of documention concerning data(base) backups, but I could not find information about how to backup a complete SQL Server instance (data + configuration) or the SQL server configuration (= everything, that is not user payload). you always re-configure your system after restoring, especially because you will forget some settings?I found following things necessary to backup configuration:
server-wide:
security: login, roles, ...
server objectsserver properties (e.g. collation, connection or memory settings; see SSMS "Server - Properties")
per database
database settings (SSMS - database - properties)scheme
1. Is there anything missing?In case of a severe system crash I would like to be able to recover the system using a full system image of the virtual machine. However I just create these images after significant changes (e.g. Windows service pack).The SQL server should be backuped independently from these system images.
2. Even if I used SQL Server maintenance plan, choose "backup all databases" and additionally backup resources DB manually I think, that some configuration is still missing, right? Where are the security configuration and server properties saved? In my system database there are some tables, but there is very little content inside, so that the data from the views INFORMATION_SCHEMA* and sys.* obviously is not saved there.SQL Server system objects, such as sys.objects, are physically persisted in theResource database, but they logically appear in the sys schema of every database. URL....What does that mean: Are all DB/table schemes, logins, ... saved in resource DB?
3. Does a usual SQL Server full database backup also contain all settings concerning this database (database properties, logins, ...)?
4. Is there at least a way to backup ONLY the configuration (server-wide and database) without data? The only tool I could find is DACPAC, that exports a database's scheme and some other configuration, but e.g. the database properties are not included: By default, the database created during the deployment will have the default settings from the CREATE DATABASE statement. The exception is that the database collation and compatibility level are set to the values from the source database. URL..
I need to copy a just-created bak file to another drive after the backup task has completed. I don't see anything in the job toolbox which works with file system operations like this. But still it must be a common need..There are ways to script this or use third part tools but I am looking for something native to the sql server 2012 SSMS toolset, if possible.
An alternate approach would be to run the backup job again, after the main backup, and change the destination to the alternate location. But I was thinking that another backup job would probably invoke more overhead on the server than a simple file copy operation. If I do end up taking this approach I could also use the cleanup task to toss older bak files in the alt dir.
Hi,
I'm running a profiler trace and I'm finding that sP_prepexec is running over 6 seconds everytime.
I looked at the SQL profiler and found out that the ODBC driver generates the update statements using sp_prepexec, I tried to run the update(without sp_prepexec) in Query analyzer, it returns the results right away.
Is there any known problems with ODBC driver about this or sp_prepexec related problems, if yes, how can I work around this.
Hi,
I use the Transact-SQL BACKUP statement in Visual Basic to backup my local MSSQL Database. It give me this error
Error 3041
BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE [BCFPC] to BCFPCBKP
I already created a backup device called BCFPCBKP and it is backup to the disk.
I tried to run the same BACKUP statement in SQL Query Analyzer and it worked fine. I tried to run my VB application in another PC. It worked fine when i use this command remotely. Can anyone tell me what's the problem?
Thanks in advance
regards,
M.Y. Yap
Using SQL Server 2005 Server Management Studio, I attempted to back up a database, and received this error:
Backup failed: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Backup and file manipulation operations (such as ALTER DATABASE ADD FILE) on a database must be serialized. Reissue the satement after the current backup or file manipulation is completed (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
Program location:
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Backup.SqlBackup(Server srv)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlManagerUI.BackupPropOptions.OnRunNow(Object sender)
Backup Options were set to:
Back up to the existing media set
Overwrite all existing backup sets
I am fairly new to SQL 2005. Can someone help me get past this issue? What other information do I need to provide?
Hi,
We are having problems with those two procedures, they are blocking other processes. I have seen sp_prepexec block another process for 5 hours, beforeI finally killed the process and the blocked process executed. Has anyone experienced behavior like this? What else can I do to troubleshoot this and determine the issue that is causing this? We could really use some assistance to determine the root of the problem.
Thanks.
The following was captured from SQL Profiler during an interaction betweenAccess Xp and SQL Server 2000:declare @P1 intset @P1=1exec sp_prepexec @P1 output, N'@P1 nvarchar(50)', N'SELECT"totalid","FPSID","IFPSSYSID","FAMLNAME","OTHAGENID","FromFPW","prevdown","tempifpssysid","upsize_ts"FROM "dbo"."Family"WHERE "totalid" = @P1', N'-:1044463096'select @P1goI think I understand that sp_prepexec prepares a parameterized query with@P1 as a variable...but sp_prepexec is not in Books Online...could someone please explain the syntax of sp_prepexec?why is @P1 used for both the parameter within the select query and the nameof the prepared statement?the other seemingly strange thing, is that when I run the above in QueryAnalyzer and try to use the parameterized query like soexec sp_execute 1, N'-:1044463096'goI receive the error messageCould not find prepared statement with handle 1
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi
I am using SQL 6.5. I have a master table which is referenced by more than 35 tables. When I try to
delete a record from the table, i am getting this message
Msg 431, Level 16, State 0
Unable to bind foreign key constraint. Too many tables involved in query.
SQL 6.5 maximum 31 foreign key references. I was wondering is there any way to delete those
records. (i don't want to drop the foreign constraints)
SQL 7.0 supports maximum 63 foreign key references.
Thanks in advance
Moorthy.
Hi,
I run the follow command to backup the database log file after a full database backup.
backup log supl_pzhou2 to supl_pzhou2_log
and got the following message.
Processed 3 pages for database 'supl_pzhou2', file 'SUPL_Log' on file 2.
BACKUP LOG successfully processed 3 pages in 0.485 seconds (0.049 MB/sec).
The problem is, the log file .ldf is still the same size after the backup log command. it is 14GB.
THe datafile is only 2GB in size.
How do I write the backup log command properly so the log file can get truncated?
Thanks in advance.
Pingx
I have a statement that works in compatibility mode 8 of SQL Server2000 while it fails in 7:declare @P3 intexec sp_prepexec @P3 output, N'@P1 float', N'select custname fromcustomer where custnr = @P1', 12600034custnr is a varchar(15). As long as the float p1 is less than1,000,000 the query returns correct results, but as soon as p1 isequal or greater than 1,000,000 the resultset is empty. I couldfigure, that above 1 million, sp_exec converts the float intoexponential format and compares this format to the string containingfixed format values. As said above, in mode 8 the statement returnscorrect results above 1,000,000.Please don't ask me, why we use float variables - I don't have anyinfluence on the statement - we isolated the statement with theprofiler.We are also currently dependent on the compatibility mode 7.I would be very grateful if you have any ideas, help or other issuesfor me.Thank you,Peter
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhat ius the synthax to backup an SQLServer DB from the command line ?
Thanks
This is maybe a dumb question but I couldn't find a definitive answeron BOL.Looking at my backup script. If I issue a CHECKPOINT, does this trulyforce all transaction log entries to the data file? Therefore, makingit unnecessary to BACKUP log (just BACKUP database is needed).Louis
View 1 Replies View RelatedRunning this query in DR server to start SQL mirroring but encountered an error below.
Query:
use master
go
alter database test set partner= N'TCP://HOSTNAME.DOMAIN.GROUP.INTRANET:5023'
go
Error:
Msg 1452, Level 16, State 6, Line 2
The partner server instance name must be distinct from the server instance that manages the database. The ALTER DATABASE SET PARTNER command failed.
Hi,
Mirroring has been working fine on 2 identical servers. We even tested failover and that worked....but today something happened (still investigating) and suddenly the Principal is disconnected and we cannot force failover with:
ALTER DATABASE [LeoCTI] SET PARTNER FORCE_SERVICE_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS
Error: The command failed because the database mirror is busy! Try again later!
How can I bring the principal back online? It won't let me do anything, won't let me turn off mirroring etc. etc.
HELP PLEASE!
Thanks
Hyper aka Richard
After setting up the linked server connection at the standby server, Itried to xcopy a file through the sql server 2000 schedule task to thestandby server's shared directory. But it keeps giving me the errormessage with'Invalid Drive Specification'.My whole process includes1) set up linked server connection on the standby server2) set up job to xcopy file as operating system commend in sql serverfrom the production box(xcopy c:directoryfile.bak\standby_servere$directory /c)3) test, but not successful - I am already running the whole scheduletask as a Windows user with Admin authority.)What did I do wrong or did I miss something?Thanks in advance
View 6 Replies View Relatedbcp worked with password in normal characters, but failed with {;"
I tried for SQL 2005 and SQL 2000, from Window 2003 SP1. Is this a bug?
When the special character { was used in the password, bcp failed with Native error 0.
>>
F:ftplogCases>bcp "sem5.sem5.server_system_log_1" in server_system_log_1.dat
-n -Smodonald -Usem5 -P{
SQLState = 08001, NativeError = 0
Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Neither DSN nor SERVER keyword supplied
SQLState = 01S00, NativeError = 0
Warning = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid connection string attribute
>>
When the special character ; or " was used in the password, bcp failed with Native error 18456.
>>
F:ftplogCases>bcp "sem5.sem5.server_system_log_1" in server_system_log_1.dat
-n -Smodonald -Usem5 -P;
SQLState = 28000, NativeError = 18456
Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Login failed for user 'sem5'.
F:ftplogCases>bcp "sem5.sem5.server_system_log_1" in server_system_log_1.dat
-n -Smodonald -Usem5 -P"
SQLState = 28000, NativeError = 18456
Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Login failed for user 'sem5'.
>>
Hi all,
i'm trying to create a publication and its snapshot in the default snapshot folder of MS SQL Server 2005.
It's all done by RMO.
Following Scenario:
1. PublicationDB was created by User1(sysadmin) ... successful
2. Enable PublicationDB for Publishing ... successful
2. Creating the publication: executed as User2(db_owner)
2.1 publication.Create(); ... successful
2.2 publication.CreateSnapshotAgent(); ... successful
2.3 Add Articles to publication ... successful
2.4 Generate Snapshot with
agent = new SnapshotGenerationAgent(); and setting all parameters for it, then execute by
agent.GenerateSnapshot();
And at this point,i got an error message, because the snapshot agent cant be executed ...
2007-09-12 12:05:46.58 User-specified agent parameter values:2007-09-12 12:05:46.58 --------------------------------------2007-09-12 12:05:46.60 -Publisher EDOM04SQLstandard2007-09-12 12:05:46.60 -PublisherDB TMS4X_PublicationDB2007-09-12 12:05:46.60 -Publication TMS4X_PublicationTest2007-09-12 12:05:46.60 -ReplicationType 22007-09-12 12:05:46.60 -Distributor EDOM04SQLstandard2007-09-12 12:05:46.60 -DistributorSecurityMode 12007-09-12 12:05:46.60 -PublisherSecurityMode 12007-09-12 12:05:46.60 --------------------------------------2007-09-12 12:05:46.63 Connecting to Distributor 'EDOM04SQLstandard'2007-09-12 12:05:46.96 The replication agent had encountered an exception.2007-09-12 12:05:46.96 Source: Replication2007-09-12 12:05:46.96 Exception Type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.ReplicationAgentSqlException2007-09-12 12:05:46.96 Exception Message: You do not have sufficient permission to run this command. Contact your system administrator.2007-09-12 12:05:46.96 Message Code: 142602007-09-12 12:05:46.96
Configurations:
-All Users have rights for read and write on the snapshotfolder including the Agent
-All users are defined in the same windows domain
-the snapshotagent account has sysadmin rights on the server and is assigned to the predefined MS SQL User Role
This scenario is workin completely fine when i exceute everything as a "sysadmin"!
But when executing it all as "db_owner" of the database, its not workin!!!
Does anybody has any resolutions for this problem?
I appreciate any support.
MariJo
I need to have RETAINDAYS=6hours on a backup command. How can I code that,seems like it should be in integer only,any work-around to have the retain days only few hours(less than a day)?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi there, I'm not exactly sure where to post this question, so I'll post it here.
I have 2 Windows XP machines, not part of a network domain. One of the XP machines is running SQL Server 2005 Express edition, lets call this DB machine. The other machine is just running my application - App machine. As part of my application, I want to be able to do a backup of the database.
The DB machine is also running the application. If I log into my application on the DB machine using SQL Server Authentication, and run the backup it works fine. (It's using the T-SQL BACKUP command). If it log into my application on the App machine, and try to do the backup, I'm getting an error saying that "The user is not associated with a trusted SQL connection". The same user is being used in both scenarios, and this user can update the database fine on the App machine, so it's not really a connection problem, it seems a permission problem. The SQL user I have created is a member of the db_backupoperator role for the required database.
Is anyone aware as to why I would be getting this error?
This script will read the contents of a DB backup file, and generate a restore command.
Set the value of parameter @backup_path to point to the backup file, run in Query Analyzer, cut/paste the output into another Query Analyzer window, modify as necessary, and run.
This is just a barebones script to demo how this can be done. Modify as necessary to meet your own needs.
Works in SQL 2000 and 7.0. May work in SQL 2005, but it is not tested.
-- Create Restore Database Command from DB Backup File
set nocount on
go
declare @backup_path nvarchar(500)
select @backup_path =
-- Path to Backup file
'\SERVERNAMESHARE_NAMEMY_DB_BACKUP_FILENAME.BAK'
create table #header (
BackupNamenvarchar(128)null,
BackupDescriptionnvarchar(128)null,
BackupTypeintnot null,
ExpirationDatedatetimenull,
Compressedintnot null,
Positionintnot null,
DeviceTypeintnot null,
UserNamenvarchar(128)not null,
ServerNamenvarchar(128)not null,
DatabaseNamenvarchar(128)not null,
DatabaseVersionintnot null,
DatabaseCreationDatedatetimenot null,
BackupSizedecimal(28,0)not null,
FirstLsndecimal(28,0)not null,
LastLsndecimal(28,0)not null,
CheckpointLsndecimal(28,0)not null,
DatabaseBackupLsndecimal(28,0)not null,
BackupStartDatedatetimenot null,
BackupFinishDatedatetimenot null,
SortOrderintnot null,
CodePageintnot null,
UnicodeLocaleIdintnot null,
UnicodeComparisonStyleintnot null,
CompatibilityLevelintnot null,
SoftwareVendorIdintnull,
SoftwareVersionMajorintnull,
SoftwareVersionMinorintnull,
SoftwareVersionBuildintnull,
MachineNamenvarchar(128)not null,
Flagsintnull,
BindingIDuniqueidentifier null,
RecoveryForkIDuniqueidentifier null,
Collationnvarchar(128)null,
Seqintnot null
identity(1,1),
)
create table #filelist (
LogicalNamenvarchar(128)not null,
PhysicalNamenvarchar(128)not null,
Typenvarchar(10)not null,
FileGroupNamenvarchar(128)null,
Sizedecimal(28,0)not null,
MaxSizedecimal(28,0)not null,
Seqintnot null
identity(1,1),
)
insert into #header
exec ('restore HeaderOnly from disk = '''+@backup_path+''' ')
insert into #filelist
exec ('restore FilelistOnly from disk = '''+@backup_path+'''')
declare @tab varchar(1), @cr varchar(2)
select @tab = char(9), @cr = char(13)+Char(10)
select
[--Restore--]=
case
when a.Seq = 1
then
@cr+
@cr+'restore database '+c.DatabaseName+
@cr+'from disk ='+@cr+@tab+''''+
@backup_path+''''+@cr+'with'+@cr
else ''
end+
@tab+'move '''+a.LogicalName+
'''to '''+a.PhysicalName+''' ,'+
case
when a.Seq = b.Seq
then
@cr+@tab+'replace, stats = 5 , recovery'
else ''
end
from
#filelist a
cross join
( select Seq = max(b1.Seq) from #filelist b1 ) b
cross join
( select DatabaseName = max(c1.DatabaseName)
from #header c1 ) c
order by
a.Seq
go
drop table #header
drop table #filelist
Results, modify as needed:
--Restore--
--------------------------------------------------------------------
restore database MY_DB
from disk =
'\SERVERNAMESHARE_NAMEMY_DB_BACKUP_FILENAME.BAK'
with
move 'PRIMARY'to 'D:MSSQLDATAMY_DB_PRIMARY.MDF' ,
move 'DATA1'to 'D:MSSQLDATAMY_DB_DATA1.NDF' ,
move 'DATA2'to 'D:MSSQLDATAMY_DB_DATA2.NDF' ,
move 'LOG'to 'D:MSSQLDATAMY_DB_LOG.LDF' ,
replace, stats = 5 , recovery
CODO ERGO SUM
Hi there, I'm not exactly sure where to post this question, so I'll post it here.
I have 2 Windows XP machines, not part of a network domain. One of the XP machines is running SQL Server 2005 Express edition, lets call this DB machine. The other machine is just running my application - App machine. As part of my application, I want to be able to do a backup of the database.
The DB machine is also running the application. If I log into my application on the DB machine using SQL Server Authentication, and run the backup it works fine. (It's using the T-SQL BACKUP command). If it log into my application on the App machine, and try to do the backup, I'm getting an error saying that "The user is not associated with a trusted SQL connection". The same user is being used in both scenarios, and this user can update the database fine on the App machine, so it's not really a connection problem, it seems a permission problem. The SQL user I have created is a member of the db_backupoperator role for the required database.
Is anyone aware as to why I would be getting this error?
How do you add a specific timestamp to a backup? For example, if the backups are going to the same drive location on disk and you want to retain 3 days worth of backups online, how do you add the timestamp to the filename to make each backup unique?
F:MSSQL.1MSSQLBackup and your user database is <xyz>_<timestamp>.bak
The user database dumps each night at 9 PM.
You want to keep 3 days of online backups.
Hi guys.
acutally my network dept. has change the backup file server IP address.. i m now hving problem for taking backup.
i have around 85 backup that runs everyday.. what i m doing now running every single command to drop backup device and then adding again.. but it's taking agess to do..
is there any simple script that just update the device path folder..
Thanks and looking foward.
-MALIK
Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, but I couldn't find a better place...
I have a .net application that calls a TSQL command to backup the database when the user clicks a button. I would like to give the user incremental feedback on what's going on.
So I hooked into the connection's InfoMessage event.
It gets called at the end of the command, not during. I read somewhere that you're supposed to be able to add "WITH NOWAIT" to a TSQL command to have it return immediately and then use the InfoMessage for updates, but the Backup command doesn't support it.
I also set a trace on the SQL Server and told SQL Server to backup using Enterprise manager hoping to catch what it was doing special to get these commands, and didn't see anything unique.
Does anyone have suggestions? I really need to show the progress of what's going on.
Thanks!
What dose this error mesage mean?
The Microsoft Tape Format (MTF) soft filemark database on backup device 'VbLSADBMCBACKUPvatt_cequest_backup.BAK' cannot be read, inhibiting random access. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3266)
Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013). The step failed
My DB backup to hard drive fails and the SQL error log contains the following message:
The Microsoft Tape Format (MTF) soft filemark database on backup device '%ls' cannot be read, inhibiting random access.
In SQL this is error 3266 but no other information is available.
Does anyone know what I should do?
Thanks
Paul
Guys,
When I try backup database, I see error message:
Can't open dump device 'C:mssqlBACKUPest.DAT', device error or device off line. Please consult the SQL Server error log for more details. (Message 3201)
What does it mean??
Thanks,
Alona