Copy Latest Diff Backup From One Server To Another
Oct 9, 2014
SQL Server 2012-SP2 and Windows 2008R2
I need to copy the last differential backup file from the production server directory to a data warehouse server directory. There are 3 differential backup files on the directory and I need to grab the latest one. I have the following syntax which work from a batch file but it does not work when I put it into a job step as a cmd even though I remove the double %% to only one %.
echo @off
set path1="192.29.305.213$SqlserverProductionBa ckupsKBR_PROD"
set path2=K:SqlserverDatawarehouseBackupPROD
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /a-d /o-d "%path1%DIFF*.bak"') do copy "%path1%\%%~a" "%path2%" & goto nextstep
:nextstep
Echo File Copied.
Even when I change it to (only one % for the variable),
for /f "tokens=*" %a in ('dir /b /a-d /o-d "%path1%DIFF*.bak"') do copy "%path1%\%~a" "%path2%"
It does not work..........It runs successfully but no file is copied or I get
Message
Executed as user: PROD23Sqladm024. The process could not be created for step 1 of job 0xEAAF943771FF304A9E7AD8ADAC24F96C (reason: The system cannot find the file specified). The step failed.
I know that the file is there. It works with batch file. Poweshell script can be OK. No SSIS - Not installed
I have a select query that results all the dbs and their several backup dates×. Howover I only need the latest backup dates for each of the db.How can I write that in tsql?
I'm having difficulties copying a production DB to a new computer using backup files. The production computer had tempdb on the D: drive, the new computer is much smaller and only has a C: drive. I've successfully restored the Master DB backup but now the database will only start with the (-F) parameter. I know how to Alter the DB to move the tempdb, but I cann't get the DB to start while Tempdb is pointed to the D: drive
Can i restore a diff. backup alone without a complete backup?
(what i am trying is this.....there are two different servers at two diff. places....i need to have both servers in sync. at all times.modifications will take place in one server and the modifications have to be reflected in the other server.i could not go for replication as the servers cannot be connected.sending complete backups daily will be a overhead .hence planning to take complete backup once and send diff. backups alone on subsequent days to the other server. how can i achieve this?)
Dear all I am new to the MS SQL, my problem is as follows. I am having a online database on sql 2k. every 15 days we have to give payout from our system, so we have a offline server in our office, we take the complete backup of that day & restore the same on the offline server, & start the payout process. The problem is that the full backup is a big file & take a lot of time for downloading from online server. is it possible that we take on diff. backup of that day & will restore the same on the offline server so the file will take less time to download. but my offline backup is 15 days old, will that update all the records or not?
In playing with differential backups, i have taken a full last night, 17GB, took my first diff today 16.5GB, took another diff right after, it was still 16.5GB, took another diff right after 16.5 GB. This database has 0 activity during the day, the import takes place @ night, and select's are done to it during the day. Any help would be greatly appreciated
I have a handful of jobs that I need to troubleshoot, but this one will hopefully give me enough insight to do the rest myself. I need to figure out why a Maintenance Plan that performs a Diff Backup on 4 databases, and then a transaction log back up on the 4 databases is failing. I just get the following error message, and I cannot tell what failed.
Executed as user: <SERVER_NAME>SYSTEM. ... 9.00.3042.00 for 32-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. All rights reserved. Started: 11:20:05 AM Progress: 2008-01-03 11:20:05.95 Source: {SOME_STUFF_WAS_HERE} Executing query "DECLARE @Guid UNIQUEIDENTIFIER EXECUTE msdb..sp".: 100% complete End Progress Progress: 2008-01-03 11:20:06.35 Source: Back Up Database (Differential) Executing query "EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N'D:Program F".: 100% complete End Progress Progress: 2008-01-03 11:20:06.35 Source: Back Up Database (Differential) Executing query "EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N'D:Program F".: 100% complete End Progress Progress: 2008-01-03 11:20:06.37 Source: Back Up Database (Differential) Executing query "EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N'D:Program F".: 100% complete End Progress Progress: 2008-01-03 11:20:06.37 Source: Back Up Database (Differential) ... The package execution fa... The step failed.
How can I find out how to fix this problem? And please let me know if I am doing something wrong. (For instance, perhaps those two tasks shouldn't be together.)
I have taken backup of a database, of which Data (MDF) & Log (LDF) files are located on "E:...." directory.
Now, I am using the same backup file to restore on another PC which is having no partitions at all. I mean now I have to restore the database using same backup file, of which Data & Log files should be located on "C:...." directory only, as it has no partitions.
This restore process gives me error :
Restore failed for Server 'HSVMMICROFIT'. Details : System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The operating system returned the error '5(Access is denied.)' while attempting 'RestoreContainer::ValidateTargetForCreation' on 'C:Program FilesMicroFitHealthStar v6.0 Server EditionDataMICROFIT_HealthStar_Data.mdf'.
What is to be done, in order to restore the database from the same back up file successfully, regardless whether the original physical location of the MDF & LDF file, is existing on current PC ??????????????
SQL Server 2000 sp3 Enterprise (8.00.818) running on W2K Adv Server cluster.
DB's and backups resided on a fibre SAN attached IBM FAStT 500 storage controller.
I had problems with random restore failures, getting errors such as "3270 Internal Consistency Error" on log restores or on full restores after reporting problems with some of the files. This was fixed (we thought) by disabling the read caching on the FAStT 500 storage controller, per Microsoft's recommendation.
We have a custom-written log shipping solution that maintains a 2nd copy of our user DB on the same system, so there's 700+ backups/restores of various types in the course of a week. After two months of error-free operation, we just got another Internal Consistency Error, but this time on a differential restore, which was a first. Looking back, we realized we were running a DBCC INDEXDEFRAG command on the source DB at the time the differential backup was running. Taking a new differential and using it in the restore sequence worked fine, so clearly the problem was in the first diff backup file.
Anybody else noticed any problems with running DBCC INDEXDEFRAG at the same time as a differntial backup?
We lost (Couldn't find ) the full backup on a Tape we were supposed to use for restore, but seems like they lost it. All we have is a Diff backup. Wondering if that is any good at all .
Hello, My master database (MS SQL 2005) has simple recovery model, however, when performing diff backup of "all databases", I am getting the following error:
Executing the query "BACKUP DATABASE [master] TO DISK = N'X:\Database Backups\diff backups\master\master_backup_200803251235.bak' WITH DIFFERENTIAL , NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'master_backup_20080325123514', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10 " failed with the following error: "You can only perform a full backup of the master database. Use BACKUP DATABASE to back up the entire master database. BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
If I choose to back up only "All user databases", then it performs just fine. Why I cannot run diff backup of master?
Normal] From: XXX "(DEFAULT)" Time: XXX SQL statement: BACKUP DATABASE [msdb] TO VIRTUAL_DEVICE = "Data Protector_(DEFAULT)_msdb_06_00_14" WITH NAME = 'Data Protector: 2007/08/01 0064', DIFFERENTIAL, BLOCKSIZE = 4096, MAXTRANSFERSIZE = 65536; [Warning] From: XXX "(DEFAULT)" Time: XXX Error has occurred while executing a SQL statement. Error message: '<Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000):bdb> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot perform a differential backup for database "msdb", because a current database backup does not exist. Perform a full database backup by reissuing BACKUP DATABASE, omitting the WITH DIFFERENTIAL option. [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.'
Ive tried to do a full followed straight after by a diff but doent help.
I am working with one of the task automating the db refresh in test server from production backup.The production backup sits on the production server local drive.Moving the production server latest backup from its local drive to Test server local drive
I've an emergency requirement to copy Source server database backup files to destination Server through xcopy command. Backup job on source server runs daily, so once this job get completes all databases backups needs to be moved to destination server. But here the main concern is "the backup files on destination server shouldn't be overwritten, they should be placed separately as Source server job runs daily".
We've a command which overwrites backups on destination server. But we need to keep backups on destination at-least for 4 weeks (means : retention should be 4 Weeks).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.My problem is that I need to set up a backup SQL Server 2000 machinewhich can be used in case of a failure to my primary. All databases(30 as of now) must be an up to the minute exact copy of productionand include most recent changes in data as well as any structurechanges (Tables, Views, SP's, Triggers, Users . . etc).When I tried this using Transactional Replication, the replicationprocess gets fouled up once I introduce any kind of structure changesto the DB. I've considered the idea of doing periodic backups andrestoring it to my backup SQL server, but this does not give me theconcurrency needed with 0 latency.I've seen articles that recommend using Transaction Replication with'Scheduled Table Refresh', and also doing database dumps to restore onthe backup machine, but I have not been able to find any documentationregarding this to try out. How can I implement this type of backupstrategy in SQL 2000?
I'm looking for a way to copy/migrate all of my SSIS packages from 1 SQL2005 server to another SQL2005 server. I see export/import options but they are for 2000 DTS packages. And it seems like I can only do this one package at a time, which is tedious. Anybody out there who's done all packages at once? Thanks!
I need to write a 'select' statement to fetch data from different tables, which are located on different servers. Can any one help in writing this 'select' statement with out moving the tables on to same server.
I'm looking to schedule a maintenance plan for my databases which I have done.I'd like this database to be copied to another folder and the name altered to include the file name and the current date time stamp.Is this possible in the scheduled maintenance plan?
I need to backup a single DB with "Copy-only Backup" option on. I Want to place the backup on a different location, we have a media set which is used for daily backups. I want this backup placed on a different
server 192.168.250.xxx DepartmentsITBackup2015xxx.bak
I have added this location to "back up to" The old one is still there. I I then hit OK th backup hangs for 2-3 minutes and gives me an error which points to the old media set. SO I want to create a new media set and call it "onlyonce" but what I am not sure about is what this Means "back up to a new media set and erase all existing backup sets" Does that mean all old backups will be deleted?
Hi i am looking for some advice about sql databases and wondering if anybody can help me.
First the Background.
I am in the process of writing a payroll program that uses SQL as a data store. However rather then creating individual databases for each payroll that can be ran on the system i have created a core payroll table that generates a unique id for each payroll and then reference that thoughtout the system.
Now The Problem
The problem I now have is when I work out the final pay for the employees I want to make a quick copy of the various records just in case I need to undo the net pay calculations for adjustments to the data, it is effectively rolling back the transactions to the database but I want to be able to keep them till I decide that everything is correct.
I cant take a snapshot of the entrie database because the payrolls stored within may be in all sorts of states.
I need to keep the records for just the payroll I'm working on.
Any Ideas or Solutions !!!!!
Thanks
EJ Gibbons "Where poets speak there hearts, then bleed for it" - U2
hi i am using isp_backup store procedure to get the daily backup of database and this is work fine but i have copy the database file in network sharing folder to use following cmd EXEC master..xp_cmdshell 'D:filename M:foldernam' M: is network folder to window2003 but their no copy this folder
What is the syntax for using xp_smdshell to copy a file from 1 server to another? Our Report server is restored from our production server and I want to copy the .dat file from the production server to a folder on the report server.
But I am running this command with sa user..... Wich kind of permission is missing to execute this copy? When I execute the same command to copy the backup from the server to itself, it works fine!!!! Does someone have an idea to solve this problem?????
i would like to copy the SQL Server Express database .mdf and .ldf files for backup. Is this ok? Autoclose = true and recovery model = simple.
Must i detach the database before copy the 2 files or can i copy the 2 files without detach at any time? When connections are open (also remote connections). Can i copy at any time even when transactions are active?
I would like to write a copy programm which copies the 2 files every 30 minuutes. Only 30 minutes of work could be lost.
This would be enough for me and i don't have to care for the the BACKUP and RESTORE stuff. In the past i used BACKUP and when i needed this BACKUP it did not run. Returns some error message..
Is copy ok? When is it possible? At any time or must all transactions be comitted? Must all connections (remotes too) be closed? Must the database be detached?
Is this enough to have a valid backup? Backup would be an attach of the .mdf file.
Or must i use the BACKUP and RESTORE stuff? Why? If so, for what reason is the AUTO CLOSE property there?
We're new users of SQL Server 2005. I created two maintenance plans...one to backup the database at 2 AM daily and one to back up transaction logs every 30 minutes. These maintenance plans write to a local disk. What we want to do, within the maintenance plan, is copy the files as soon as they are written to a remote server. Is that possible?
My main sql server lost the system board due to overheating. I need to get the (external enclosure scsi attached)array up and running as it has production data as well as SQL backups stored there. My most recent/valid backups are located with the production data. It is possible to connect this array to different server? This is a HP DL380 and all of my other servers are Dell 2900's.
We are having a problem with trying to backup the database device and log DAT files located in the MSSQLData directory. The Seagate Backup Exec. states that the files are busy and skips them during its backup cycle. It skips all the devices in the directory.
