I have a backup plan that begins with a weekly full backup and then a nightly transactionlog backup. If mid week I perform a full backup to restore on another server does that affect the log backups of the scheduled plan?
View 3 RepliesWe have just implemented a SQL 2012 always on environment. We have a primary and secondary server. I am confused about how to set up the backup plans. The application team was happy to tell me that in sql 2012 always on we can offload the backups to the secondary, thus reducing overhead on the primary server.
However, the secondary only supports copy only full backups. I am unsure how these would be useful in a disaster event? I could not apply any trx log backups on a copy only backup. This means I need to run my full backups on the primary server?
I defined a maintenance plan to do a backup, scheduled it for midnight, but no job ever ran. Is there some other step to do?
thanks!
I am currently using sql server 2005 standard edition. I just completed a maintenance plan using the wizard to perform a full backup nightly of a user database. I noticed there was no option to delete backups greater then a number of days old like we have with plans in sql server 2000. Is there a way of doing this through the plan in sql server 2005?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm the dba for a large company and have setup many maintenance plans for our sql servers. One of the options I have set is to delete old backups of databases and transaction logs after 2 days. For some reason, the old database backups are being deleted, but the old transaction logs backups are not. I have them being put in the same directory. Anybody have any ideas why this is happening and what if any fix is available?
View 1 Replies View RelatedUsing Ola Hallengren's scripts I do a full backup of a database on a Sunday. Then differential backups every 6 hours and log backups every hour. I would like to keep a full week of backups based off the full backup done on Sunday. Is there a way for me to clear out the diff and log folders after the successful full backup on Sunday nights?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am new to SQL Server 2000 & need ya all's help!!
I am trying to set up a database maintenance plan to back up databases & transactional logs. If I do a full backup once a week & a transactional backup every day...will I be safe enough to have enough backups to be able to restore to any point of time by restoring the full backup & the transactional logs upto that point?
In other words, I am asking what are the points to consider & what should be a decent backup plan? Do transactional logs take stored procedureal changes also?
Thanks for ur help,
Edward
I run SQL Server 2000 and use thier database maintenance plans tobackup my databases. My questions is what happens if a change is beingmade to a database table while a backup is running? Should I be lockingthe databases before the backup begins?Scenario:1) Database Plan begins backup at 7:00 PM.2) At 7:01 PM a web user updates their password while the backup istaking place.3) at 7:15 PM the backup is complete.In this scenario, will the change/update made in step (2) be containedwithin the backup?On Another note, can anyone point me in the right direction for "BestPractices" on establishing a Recovery Mode for a database? I have beentold to set it to "Simple" so the logs do consume a lot of disc spaceand performance. The issue with this is I am not sure if I should bemaintaining a full transaction log. Our database only changes on amonthly basis. The only "on going" updates that may take place is auser changing their password. We also have other databases that changeoften throughout the day. I assume after a transaction log has beentruncated, the amount of disk space it consumes is minimal? So pleaseany information or a kick in the right direction would be muchappreciated. Thanks.
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Hello
We created maintenance plans for Backup, we configured as:
1. Backup set expires after 2 days. (but we still see backup files are at the location from day one)
2. There is Overwrite and Append in backup file settings. what eaxactly overwrites means, in case we set up expire the backup set after 2 days.
please advice. Thanks, Jay
Hi All,
I've just started at a new job that is a little bit of a step up from my old job. At my previous job I was responsible for 5 instances of SQL Server with about 30 databases. My new job has me (and a team of 3 other DBA's) responsible for 100+ instances. The backup schedule and process is a mess. I'm thinking about moving everything to Maintenance Plans (some 2000, some 2005). I've always scheduled individual jobs for each database previously and done index maintenance manually, but I'm kinda leaning toward Maintenance Plans just to simplify everything.
Anyone out there have any input on how and why they chose MP's over scheduling backups db by db? Or anyone out there choose not to use MP's for a particular reason? Input is greatly appreciated.
Manny
I an trying to figure out a workable backup plan. I'd like to use a backup device, but I don't see how to keep a set number of days backups in it. Backing up to a backup device adds the backup in. How do I purge the expired backups so there is only, lets say, 3 days worth of backups in the backup device?
I am in plan to implement following for backup of one of our database Enable Full recovery mode
1- Create full backup nightly
2- Create transaction log backup after every 25 min
as I am taking full backup every night, I think I can remove transaction log file backups at the time of full backup, as we can apply transaction log backup over full backup.My question is regarding removal of transaction log backups.
-Should I remove all transaction log backups and then execute full backup?
-Should I execute full backup and remove all transaction log backup older than 24Hrs ?
-Do I have to consider SCN or related info before deleting any transaction log backup ?
I've a SQL Server Express 2012 DB that I need to backup and restore on a different machine.I know that in the past someone performed full db and logs backup with sqlcmd.exe and I found some of this backup files but not all of them.In the last 6 months no backups has been taken.What is the right procedure I need to follow in order to save a backup of this DB and restore it on different machine withou losing data?
View 9 Replies View RelatedRunning SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition.
Database is in Full Recovery mode.
I have full backups scheduled weekly, differentails scheduled daily and tran log ackups scheduled for every 15 minutes.
The tran log backups only work for the first 40 minutes or so after the daily backup. Once the daily has occured, the tran backups will work again, but for only 40 minutes.
I run consistency checks on the db daily and there are no errors.
The error returned from the tran log backup is 'BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup'
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Having a lot of problems with backup device creating backups with a new transaction log for each day. This is causing the backups to grow way to fast. Seems to be random with our clients. Created new device backups but getting same problem. A manual backup selecting overwrite all existing backup sets will fix it. But starts the cycle all over again.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm performing SQL Server native backups and Comvault Backups are breaking the backup chain?I can work around them if they only perfume 1 backup per day.We have a 3rd party hosting our servers so I do not have much control as to what they do.I have concerns about being able to get my databases Comvault being restored.
View 2 Replies View RelatedCan we backup our cluster databases directly to tape using native backups (without using any third party tool) ? It's SQL Server 2012 two node Active/Passive cluster. One of the DB will be huge in size, hence checking if we can directly backup from the cluster instance to a tape.
View 7 Replies View RelatedHi,I need to extract randomly 5 records from the table "Questions". Now I useSELECT TOP 5 FROM Questions ORDERBY NEWID()And it works. The problem is that I need an additional thing: if SQLextracts record with ID=4, then it should not extract record with ID=9,because they are similar. I mean, I'd like something to tell SQL that if itextracts some questions, then it SHOULD NOT extract other ones.How can I do it?Thanks!Luke
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using ASP and SQL Serv 2000. What I need to get from 2 tables (company & customers) is random 10 customers from random 20 comp.
Anyone got an idea how to do this??? I've spent 2 days trying to get stored proc. or T-SQL to work, but nothing good came out of it. I can get 1 comp and 10 cust, but not a grouped list of 20 comp. w/ 10 cust. each.
Help is greatly appreciated.
The space allocated to the Log in question is 180 GB. During this time period I was running TLog backups every 5 minutes, yet the log continued to chew through to 80 GB used, even after the process was complete and a final TLog backup had been taken. It continued to stay very large until the Full backup was complete -- or something else that I'm unaware of completed. Like every other DBA I typically take a TLog backup to shrink the log, but what appeared to be the case here was the Full completed and it released the used log space. All said, will Transaction Log backups not free up the log during Full backups?
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Hi there
I'm getting this message on my third automated backup of the transaction logs of the day. Both databases are in full recovery mode, both successfully backed up at 01.00. The transaction logs backed up perfectly happily at 01:30 and 05:30, but failed at 09:30.
The only difference between 05:30 and 09:30's backups is that the log files were shrunk at 08:15 (the databases in question are the ones that sit under ILM2007, and keeping the log files small keeps the system running better).
Is it possible that shrinking the log files causes the database to think that there hasn't been a full database backup?
Thanks
Jane
I have two schematically identical databases on the same MS SQL 2000 server. The differences in the data are very slight. Here is my problem: the identical query has totally different execution plans on the different databases. One is (in my opinion) correct, the other causes the query to take 60 times as long. This is not an exaggeration, on the quick DB the query takes 3 seconds, on the other DB it takes 3 minutes. I have tried the following to help the optimizer pick a better execution plan on the slow db:
rebuild the indexes
dbcc indexdefrag
update statistics
I CAN put in a hint to cause the query to execute faster, but my employer now knows about the problem and he (and I) want to know WHY this is happening.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
-Scott
SQL7: I have added a Maintenance Plan to backup to 4mm dat tape the master and msdb SQL databases as well as another database relative to our application called WISE. This works fine; however, it appears to always append to the media as opposed to overwriting (preferred). Any help would be appreciated.....
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi,
I am going to set up maintenance plans on all our SQL servers (7.0 and 2000). I have found several 'tutorials' on how to do this, but no one is describing the options in detail. Can you guys/gals please help me out? We have alot of small databases and some medium (1-2GB).
Thanks//Stefan
We have Veritas' Backupexec running in our Enterprise and the Veritas Install actually installs MS SQL Server MSDN on each Server in the Enterprise.
It looks like it also sets up a default Maintenance plan within each of the MSDN Instances.
I guess my question is.. Can I manage the Maintenance Plans on these MSDN Instances via the SQL Server EM GUI from my desktop?? Seems like when I look at the Maintenance plans alot of the options are greyed out or not available. What I am trying to do is modify one of the maintenance plans to have the backups deleted after one week (One of the Instances has been running a complete backup on the Backupexec Databases for a year and there are a years worth of backups on the Server) but the option to "remove files older than" is 'greyed out' ??????
Eh uhhhh where did the old '-DelBkUps 7DAYS' (delete files older than 7 Days) option go?
Is this a future product enhancement?
I fee like such a dirty noob.
Does anyone get any issues creating "Backup" jobs as a Maintenance Plan when specifying the backup location as a UNC path (e.g. "\backup_bladeBACKUPS")?
For some reason, if i try using the UNC path for a 1-time backup, it works, but when I am trying to put it into a scheduled job, it does not 'seem' to perform the Backup step.
Help please...
seethem
HiCan you give me sone pointers to where I can get more information aboutthe various operations like index seeks,Bookmark Lookups,ClusteredIndex Scan in an execution plan.ThanksRagu
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have 2 SQL databases which are the same and are giving me differentquery plans.select s.* from hlresults hinner join specimens s on s.specimen_tk = h.specimen_tkwhere s.site_tk = 9 and s.location in ('ABC','WIAD')and s.date_collected between '2/1/2003' and '2/3/2006'order by s.location, s.date_collectedBoth boxes have the same configuration, the only difference is that oneof them is a cluster.The Acluster box is taking twice as long to run the query.I have run statistics on both, and the cluster is still creating abitmap and running some parallelism which the other box is not.Also, the the first step, the A1 box estimates the rows returned to bearound 80K and the actual rows returned is about 40K - subtree cost =248. The Acluster box estimates 400K - subtree cost=533!After running statistics, how can it be so off?I've also reindexed to no avail . . .any insight would be very much appreciated. We just moved to this newsystem and I hate that the db is now slower -A1:affinity mask -2147483648 2147483647 0 0allow updates 0 1 0 0awe enabled 0 1 1 1c2 audit mode 0 1 0 0cost threshold for parallelism 0 32767 0 0Cross DB Ownership Chaining 0 1 0 0cursor threshold -1 2147483647 -1 -1default full-text language 0 2147483647 1033 1033default language 0 9999 0 0fill factor (%) 0 100 90 90index create memory (KB) 704 2147483647 0 0lightweight pooling 0 1 0 0locks 5000 2147483647 0 0max degree of parallelism 0 32 4 4max server memory (MB) 4 2147483647 14336 14336max text repl size (B) 0 2147483647 65536 65536max worker threads 32 32767 255 255media retention 0 365 0 0min memory per query (KB) 512 2147483647 1024 1024min server memory (MB) 0 2147483647 4096 4096nested triggers 0 1 0 0network packet size (B) 512 32767 4096 4096open objects 0 2147483647 0 0priority boost 0 1 0 0query governor cost limit 0 2147483647 0 0query wait (s) -1 2147483647 -1 -1recovery interval (min) 0 32767 0 0remote access 0 1 1 1remote login timeout (s) 0 2147483647 0 0remote proc trans 0 1 0 0remote query timeout (s) 0 2147483647 0 0scan for startup procs 0 1 1 1set working set size 0 1 0 0show advanced options 0 1 1 1two digit year cutoff 1753 9999 2049 2049user connections 0 32767 0 0user options 0 32767 0 0Acluster:affinity mask -2147483648 2147483647 0 0allow updates 0 1 0 0awe enabled 0 1 1 1c2 audit mode 0 1 0 0cost threshold for parallelism 0 32767 0 0Cross DB Ownership Chaining 0 1 0 0cursor threshold -1 2147483647 -1 -1default full-text language 0 2147483647 1033 1033default language 0 9999 0 0fill factor (%) 0 100 90 90index create memory (KB) 704 2147483647 0 0lightweight pooling 0 1 0 0locks 5000 2147483647 0 0max degree of parallelism 0 32 4 4max server memory (MB) 4 2147483647 14336 14336max text repl size (B) 0 2147483647 65536 65536max worker threads 32 32767 255 255media retention 0 365 0 0min memory per query (KB) 512 2147483647 1024 1024min server memory (MB) 0 2147483647 4095 4095nested triggers 0 1 0 0network packet size (B) 512 32767 4096 4096open objects 0 2147483647 0 0priority boost 0 1 0 0query governor cost limit 0 2147483647 0 0query wait (s) -1 2147483647 -1 -1recovery interval (min) 0 32767 0 0remote access 0 1 1 1remote login timeout (s) 0 2147483647 0 0remote proc trans 0 1 0 0remote query timeout (s) 0 2147483647 0 0scan for startup procs 0 1 1 1set working set size 0 1 0 0show advanced options 0 1 1 1two digit year cutoff 1753 9999 2049 2049user connections 0 32767 0 0user options 0 32767 0 0
View 1 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know if Sql Server 2005 Express SP2 support scheduled backups and maintenance plans?
Looking at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb283536.aspx , it appears to...
Thanks.
Does any body have any good recommendations for maintenace plans?
Here are few questions I have.
When should indexes be re-indexed?
What should be done first? Reorganize indexes or rebuild indexes?
How often backups should be done and what kind?
How often should database statistics be updated?
Do database statistics need need to be updated on system databases?
How often should a database integrity check be done?
How long should history be kept for?
What is a good order for tasks should be done?
Any input would be great
Eytan
I created several Maint.Plans before installing SP2. Now I need to modify them and I get the following error. I cannot even Create new ones, because of the Enumerate error. Please advice if this error is due to the same issues mentioned on this blog.
When replying please cc me at Camilo.Torres@bellsouth.com
Thanks
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
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Enumerate target servers failed for Job 'Daily Maintenance Plan 1'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.3042.00&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates.FailedOperationExceptionText&EvtID=Enumerate+target+servers+Job&LinkId=20476
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&LinkId=20476
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An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
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String or binary data would be truncated. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 8152)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00.3042&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=8152&LinkId=20476
We have been asked by a customer who uses our software product whether they should upgrade from SQL 6.5 to SQL 7 or SQL 2000. They have one server with 250 clients accessing SQL Server.
I used to think that upgrading to SQL 7 would be cheaper in light of the complaints I've heard from administrators about the cost of going to SQL 2000's new pricing model, so I took a look at Microsoft's web site. Navigating around their web site looking for licensing info is always an adventure!
I saw only SQL 2000 (non-upgrade) pricing on their web site, so I'm assuming that buying SQL 2000 and then upgrading to SQL 7 would result in the same pricing structure whether a customer upgrades to SQL 7 or SQL 2000 (minus the discount for upgrading). I see that a processor based license ($2499 per processor standard edition) with its unlimited cals would be cheaper for a company with 250 clients, since the cost of cals for 250 clients with the standard edition server-based pricing would be prohibitive.
So if the pricing is the same, the decision to upgrade to SQL 7 or SQL 2000 would rest upon features available and when SQL 7 will be retired.
Does anyone know how long Microsoft will support SQL 7? (I'm defining support as until they stop providing the patches and hotfixes, since the product will no longer be actively supported. The information I saw on Microsoft's web site made it seem like SQL 7 will be supported for a long time yet.
Does anyone know how long Microsoft will support SQL 6.5? That will give me an idea how long our customers will have to upgrade?
What would you recommend to your customers so as to benefit them most?
Thanks!
Barbara