We are about to install MSSQL Server 2000, on a Windows XP Home
Machine. However, we have servers we could set routine backups of files
to be done to. What what be the best way of doing this?
Is there functionality in SQL Server 2000, where we can say dump all
data definitions, accounts, and data to files on this drive at regular
intervals?
What other suggestions do you have apart from obviously the usual RAID,
and Tape Drive stuff?
It works remotely if I run it via command prompt. But when I add this to a TSQL job on my remote SQL instance, it runs without deleting anything. What I'm missing?
I've written a custom script to delete backup files from location. But unable to modify now to count the number of files are deleted. How to modify the script...
/* Script to delete older than N days backup from a specific directory */
USE [db_admin] GO IF OBJECT_ID('usp_DeleteBackup', 'P') IS NOT NULL DROP PROC usp_DeleteBackup GO
Currently we use a SQL maintenance plan to do a full backup of all our databases daily (about 40 databases on our production server). As you can imagine, this eats up disk space quickly so currently we manually zip the backup files and/or move them to an archive drive. I considered writing an application to walk through the backup folder structure and zip any .bak file it finds, but I know there are some third party tools out there that will backup/restore a MS SQL database. I was wondering if any of these also zip the backups once they are created. Any recommendations or suggestions are welcome.
I scheduled automatic backup process but its only showing backup of the only one .sql file in the backup folder. Other created .sql files are not backed up. Why is it so?
I want to do sql db backup.But how can I backup db to split backup files? The reason I want to split the backup file is becasue single file size is too big and I want to write to dvd.
hello! can you take a look at my question? We use ARCServe to backup exchange server file (priv1.stm and priv1.edb) every night. When I select both of the files and start to back up using ARCServe. It showed me that Backup Operation Successful.
When I check the files, it didn’t backup both of the files. I don’t know why. Do you know how to backup these two files?
I am going to move to a different host. Can I get back up files of my SQLServer database (from the host) and use those to set up on the new host? Andif so, is that what I should be asking for - backup files? Someone told methere should be 2 files.Thanks
Hi All,I searched the archives but I could not find any useful stuff for me.I can backup a database on SQLExpress like USE masterEXEC sp_addumpdevice 'disk', 'Store_1', 'c:Store_1.dat'BACKUP DATABASE Store TO Store_1Here is my problem: If I use logins,roles etc. in an application automatically a mdf file is created. Or I can create a new sql database. SQLExpress dynamically use the mdf file when connection string defined. This mdf file is not defined as a database on SQLExpress. Because SQLExpress has not a gui, I cannot see the registered database. How can I backup any sqlexpress mdf file without deattaching or attaching?Thanks
HiWhat is the easiest option for Exporting ALL of my SQL Server tables into a CSV file (either separate CSV files for each table or one big file with all the table columns and data) ???I just want to Backup my SQL Server database like we backup MySQL database using phpMyAdmin. Unfortunately, my SQL hosting company does not allow backups for free.Thanks for help
Hi, I am developing a tool that takes snapshot of a particular database. By snapshot I mean, attaching the .LDF & .MDF files. Would you please let me know how to access these files & take a backup of the same. And also how to restore them back. (using c# programming) Thanks, Archana A.A.
I need to know how big SQL Server 7 backup files are in comparison to the database size. For example if I have a database that is 300 Mb and I do a complete backup to disk with SQL Server 7 will the backup file be about 300 Mb?
I hv worked in 6.5. There we take backup through the command 'Dump Database'(e.g---> "Dump database master to masdump WITH INIT." ). As for as I know, in 7.0 we are taking backup using the command "Backup Database". Is it possible to use "Dump Database" command in 7.0.
Hello everybody. I have SQL2000 sp3 standard with 50 db's
All db set for full recovery and autoshrink Backup done with Tivoli
full backup once a week log backup done every 12 hrs
Problem .. shrinking logs
every 20 min I run job DBCC SHRINKFILE (My_db_logFile) for every db
70% of the time I am getting message similar to ------------- Cannot shrink log file 2 (Wholesale_Log) because all logical log files are in use. -------------- 1. I checked with sp_who2 The is no activity on db 'Wholesale_Log' or any other db returning "Cannot shrink..."
Why i getting "Cannot shrink ..." ?
even if job runs right after backup of the log files ,I still have messages.
i want to delete the backup files older than 15 days. how can i do this? Actually i backup the db and log using the TSQL, and the backup files are in d:ackup folder. I tried sqlmaint,xp_sqlmaint but its not running .
I have a large (200+ GB) database with many (100+) files. Please don't ask me why I did it this way; I inherited this database -- really, it wasn't my idea.
My predecessor also seemd to think that backups were unnecessary; there have been no backups of this database -- ever.
While we cast about for a good long term solution, I am trying various short-term options. One I want to explore is to back the database up in chunks -- ie, by backing up individual files. I created a test database with five files (there is only one filegroup on the production server). Here is the DDL:
-- ============================================= -- Create database on mulitple file groups -- ============================================= IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM master..sysdatabases WHERE name = N'MultiFile') DROP DATABASE MultiFile GO
LOG ON ( NAME = MultiFile_Log, FILENAME = N'e:MSSQLDataMultiFile_Log.ldf', SIZE = 1MB, MAXSIZE = 10MB, FILEGROWTH = 10%) GO
I have tried the following backup script:
BACKUP DATABASE MultiFile FILE = 'MultiFile', FILE = 'MultiFile2' TO Backup01 WITH INIT
BACKUP DATABASE MultiFile FILE = 'MultiFile3', FILE = 'MultiFile4' TO Backup02 WITH INIT
BACKUP DATABASE MultiFile FILE = 'MultiFile5' TO Backup03 WITH INIT
And here is the restore script:
RESTORE DATABASE MultiFile2 FILE = 'MultiFile', FILE = 'MultiFile2', FILE = 'MultiFile3', FILE = 'MultiFile4', FILE = 'MultiFile5' FROM Backup01, Backup02, Backup03 WITH MOVE 'MultiFile' TO 'E:MSSQLDataaMultfile.mdf', MOVE 'MultiFile2' TO 'E:MSSQLDataaMultifile2.mdf', MOVE 'MultiFile2' TO 'E:MSSQLDataaMultifile3.mdf', MOVE 'MultiFile2' TO 'E:MSSQLDataaMultifile4.mdf', MOVE 'MultiFile2' TO 'E:MSSQLDataaMultifile5.mdf', MOVE 'MultiFile_log' TO 'E:MSSQLaMultFile_Log.ldf'
However, running the Restore script generates the following error:
Server: Msg 3259, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The volume on device 'Backup02' is not part of a multiple family media set. BACKUP WITH FORMAT can be used to form a new media set. Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
I'm not sure what to make of this. What do I need to alter in either the backup script or the restore script to make this work?
I am trying this because my objectives are to: 1. Limit the amount of work that the server is performing during any one given backup session. The idea that I have is to backup the database in chunks using a rolling 3-5 day window. 2. The database must be up and operational 7x24x365 (except for one 4 hour window each month) 3. This is not the long-term solution; but I need something to tide us over until we can purchase additional storage capacity.
I appreciate any thoughts and or guidance you can provide.
I have had trouble with maintenance plans not deleting expired backups, & this filling the hadrdisk. i have now done an agent job using tsql backup with init/skip, so it just overwrites. problem now is that it fails saying the backup device isnt available (cant delet the file from OS either) - so this was obviously the prob with the maintence plans too - sql/os doesnt seem to be releasing the file after it is completed and a server restart is needed to release it... anyone know how to sort this? thanks des
When a new scheduled job is created for a Differential backup, the file specified in the Destination folder is automatically created by SQL Server. After the first time the job runs, is there a way to configure SQL Server to give each Differential file a unique name, including the timestamp (i.e. similar to Full Backup jobs)? I noticed my only options are 'Append to File" and "Overwrite Existing File." If I choose to enable "Backup Set Expiration," the backup job will not run, because it wants to append/overwrite the filename specified.
Looking at the documentation, it would suggest that as well as data files, when a backup file's created it will also be zeroed out unless the service a/c's been given Perform Volume Maintenance.
We take our backups to dedicated backup servers, meaning backup performance should improve significantly if instant file initialization's given to the Service account logins for the source boxes if I'm right.
I have sent a mssql backup file in .bak format to my host admin and asked them restore it. but they told me there are 3 files with 3 different dates in that backup what does it mean? should I ask them to restore all of them or just the last one? Thanks very much in addvance (context: MS SQL 2005 express)
I have to migrate SQL 2000 DTS-Packages to SQL 2005. My Problem is that I didn't saved my DTS-Packages as files and the SQL 2000 Server exist no longer.
Actually I have only the old hard disk with the SQL 2000 databases. Do you have any ideas what can I do?
Currently I have a maintenance plan running a Full backup weekly, differential backups nightly, and log backups hourly. The log backups are all going into a single backup file - but it's hard to see what's going on behind the scenes here.
Does this file get 'reset' when the full backup is performed? Will it just keep growing indefinitely and should I be creating new files for each log backup, or manually deleting the file each week during the full backup task?
I have installed Beta 2 over SQL Express and when i wanted to install either Beta 2 or Express it dosn't allow e and i need to backup my databases urgently?
I have an old sharepoint db (SQL Server 2000 Standard edition). What I need to try to recover is the data in log backup files from the docs table. I need to see if there is a way to get any data in the log backups from columns dirname, leafname and content. The column content is an image type which old documents (word, excel...). I don't have a full log chain since the last full restore so any data I can get out of the logs is better than nothing. I really just need to get the image files stored in the column content and place them in a shared directory for the users and let them see what they can use.
Ok in SQL 2000 this is within the maintaince plan, where as i have to create a seprate one for sql 2005 being i assume the 'clean up history' I choose the backup andrestore option choose 2 weeks and then run the job once created it runs sucssessfully but yet it dosnt delete a thing. I have backups going back almost 2 months now. What on earth am i not doing?
We have a pretty large SQL Server database, just shy of 400 GB. It is divided up into 24 different data files. The previous DBA here said it is faster to backup the backup individual data files to seperate files. So what he did was issue 6 backup statements like the one below as a step in an agent job.
BACKUP DATABASE MYDATABASE FILE = 'Data', FILE = 'data2', FILE = 'data3', FILE = 'data4' TO Data1_4 WITH FORMAT
Next step:
BACKUP DATABASE MYDATABASE FILE = 'data5', FILE = 'data6', FILE = 'data7', FILE = 'data8' TO Data5_8 WITH FORMAT
etc.. in sequence.
What I question is how this is faster than just issuing a backup for the whole database? Has anyone ever ran into this before?
This Maintenance Cleanup Task is set to delete all BAK and TRN files it's made (in seperate maintenance plans) in given path, with the given file extension, delete files based on the age of the file at task run time. Delete files older that 4 days.
The files are now backing up for months and months. I'm not going to take care of this. I've got a computer to do this for me, every time it runs its jobs, every 4 hours and once overnight.
This is ignoring commands and refusing to do as it's told. I've checked the settings in here over and over. It's so simple - what could be wrong? I've checked the path, the file age, the extensions... The disks are getting full!
I am trying to backup the sql database files from a local computer to a server location through vb.net 2005. Is there a simple way to do this? Every time I try to detach the database, I cannot because the database is in use. Is there something I am missing with this?
