DB Engine :: Restore Backups With Different Recovery Fork
Oct 21, 2015
how to restore database backups with different recovery fork. I have 1-full backup 2-diff backups and 10-tran backups. My prod database in mirror, so after error, switched to mirror with "allow_data_loss" option. And now I have full and diff backup with one recovery fork GUID and other backups with another GUID.So the question is, how to restore all this backups if in middle of restoration will be different recovery fork.Tryed to restore log backups with new fork guid and got error:This backup set cannot be applied because it is on a recovery path that is inconsistent with the database. The recovery path is the sequence of data and log backups that have brought the database to a particular recovery point. Find a compatible backup to restore, or restore the rest of the database to match a recovery point within this backup set, which will restore the database to a different point in time.
I make two full backups on Oct 1 and Oct 10. I want to restore the server to a state in Oct 5. So I just do as follows:
Perform a transaction log backup on the server on Oct 23. I have never backup transaction log in the past. Restore the server with Oct 1 full backup with NORECOVERY option.Try to restore to the point at Oct 5 12:00, with the transaction log.
But the restore fails and SQL Server said the transaction log does not contain the point. The point is too early. Why? Also my .LDF file is about 13G, but the transaction log backup is only 200MB. Why?
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?
in the process of migrating a big db from server 1 to server 2, we had to roll back the change. I started with taking a full db backup and restoring it on server 2 with norecovery, and then a couple logs with norecovery, and then the last log with recovery.
Is there some way to continue this chain now, I mean to change the db to norecovery, or other way to restore logs.
I dont want to do a new full backup.
If I try to do a log restore now i get the message:
Msg 3117, Level 16, State 4, Line 1
The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward.
How can i make sure that i dont have any data loss in the event of DB crash. I take daily full database backup dump to the disk and every 4 hrs transaction log dump.
What shoud be the backup strategy to get 100 % database from the backup/ to get in point in time receovery.
I've got log shipping set up, and everything seems to be working fine, but the log files are not being deleted from the primary server despite configuring log shipping to retain them for 3 days. I see no errors concerning the log shipping, but did not configure a monitor. What process is responsible for deleting the older log backups, and how can I look for errors. I could simply set up a jog to delete the older files, but that will only mask the issue.
I'm requesting of our dba that he create a database with recovery simple for my peer and I to start using. I'm asking him to give us db owner on this db so we can create schemas, tables, views, procs, do table inserts, deletes etc etc. what sql permission (if any) would allow my peer and I to do a backup once in a while to the default sql directory for backups? And for that matter a restore from there.
- Windows 2008R2 SP2 VM (VMware 6) - SQL 2012 SP2 Std. - NetApp iSCSI LUNs, Snapmanager for SQL
So I have created a test database and configured the logs to grow to max. 120MB in size.
To check the allocated and free space I right-clicked the database -> tasks -> shrink file
I see currently allocated: 5,00MB and 2,50MB free space for the MDF Database I see currently allocated: 1,00MB and 0,63MB free space for the LDF Logfile
Next I use a data generator to fill the database with random data.
After adding around 500k rows I check the size again:
I see currently allocated: 17,00MB and 0,44MB free space for the MDF Database I see currently allocated: 61,94MB and 0,27MB free space for the LDF Logfile
Next I take a full backup incl. truncating log files. After that I check the size again:
I see currently allocated: 17,00MB and 0,44MB free space for the MDF Database I see currently allocated: 61,94MB and 57,24MB free space for the LDF Logfile
So now my question is where are those 56,97MB? I imagined they should now be added to the MDF file but they seem to be just gone. I did this procedure 2x more time and the MDF stays the same size while the LDF is almost empty after backups. Then I thought maybe its in the memory of the server so I rebooted it. But still the MDF has the same size... Is this normal? How it should work?
My recommendation to my manager is to base recovery on .bak and .trn files. However the .mdf and .ldf files can be backed up without being detached and I am wondering about the value of these file backups. He has set up backups to external drive of the .mdf and .ldf but not of the .bak and .trn files that I have set up. His recovery strategy is based on complete backup of the machine and bare metal recovery. I am finding it hard to defend my preference for going about recovery with a new SQL Server installation, then restoring .bak files. Has tried recovery from .mdf and .ldf? Please note that all the database files (system and user) are on a single drive, I think this was set up to allow the machine to be clustered. We are intending to do a test rebuild of the machine from his backups.
Is it alright to move the .bak and .trn backups which are automatically created in a File Share Witness when a DB is added to an Availability Group? I did that and there were error IDs 1069 occurring, and the AG was unable to be brought up whenever I run a load intensive batch job ...
i've change the database log file from E drive to Drive due to insufficient space.without attaching the log file i've shutdown the sytem. becz it's gone in hand mode.post resuming its showing recovery pending.i'm unable to get online db.
Question the first: So my records are going along nicely, but I need them to split up (basically, I need to create a copy of the record and send one copy down one path, and another copy down another path). Any ideas how to do that?
Question the second: After I aggregate my records (down one of the paths), I need to store some columns as xml. Is there a tool for this?
I have a problem with my MS SQL Server 2000 (SP2). My task is to restore a backup from a database on another computer.
The server makes a backup everyday. If this server gets a hardware problem there must be a chance to replace it by another server which is made by the backup files.
In this scenario I don't have the possibility to copy the whole folder of the old server.
Is it possible to restore the bakup so that the new server looks like the old one?
Our DBs are set up to do a full backup once a day (late at night) and then transaction log backups during the day at shorter intervals.
I want to setup a dev database on the same server. I want this database to be an automatically restored copy of the live database. So every night, after the full backup of the live DB, I want to restore the live DB to this dev DB.
Can this be automated? Can the restore automatically stop the dev database in case some open connections exist?
can anyone explain me how can i make a DB backup in sql express 2005 ? The sql express instance and my web aplication are running on the same server. I need a script for directly execute it (and if possible also to restore the DB ) from my web aplication.
other question: any idea how can i tell to sql express to do the backup automatically every day?
I make two full backups on Oct 1 and Oct 10. I want to restore the server to a state in Oct 5. So I just do as follows:
1.Perform a transaction log backup on the server on Oct 23. I have never backup transaction log in the past. 2. Restore the server with Oct 1 full backup with NORECOVERY option. 3.Try to restore to the point at Oct 5 12:00, with the transaction log.
But the restore fails and SQL Server said the transaction log does not contain the point. The point is too early. Why? Also my .LDF file is about 13G, but the transaction log backup is only 200MB. Why?
So I'm testing some things in our new servers and was trying to restore a database from some striped backup sets. We have 4 files for our backups and restoring the FULL backups with no recovery worked beautifully via SSMS. But when I tried to restore the differentials (also striped across 4 files), the GUI gave me this error:
Unable to create restore plan due to break in the LSN chain.
How to locate when the break happened and I came across this article about how this is an SSMS 2012 bug.
So I tried the advice in this article to attempt a restore via Files and Filegroups, and ended up with the below error:
EDIT: Picture is attached if it is not showing in post.
I was able to restore via T-SQL, but I want to also be able to restore through the GUI.
My understanding is that the log file is not supposed to grow if the database is under simple recovery mode.I am in a situation where the log grows if do any inserts that involve millions of rows.How do i make sure that it does not grow?
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?
I have a SQL cluster which ran out of disk the other day. I threw plenty more disk at the SAN. However, 1 of the databases came back with Recovery Pending and has been over 24 hours. I have tried to backup the database with no success. I don't have a clean backup from the day it occured so would have a good amount of work missing.
Running a dbcc check returns the following:
Msg 945, Level 14, State 2, Line 1
Database 'sqldb' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space. See the SQL Server errorlog for details.
I have not tried a dbcc check with REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS as there seems to be a high risk of losing whatever was going on. how I can get the db back online?
It seems that very recently, the backups made during a nightly ArcServe tape backup procedure are showing up in the restore window on our SQL server. We don't want that! The application group makes it's own backup's to disk, and we want to see only them in the restore window. (The tape ackup is a redudnant process, to be used if one of our on-hand disk backups are bad or non-existent, or if the DB needs to be recovered from an older date.)
What made the ArcServe files show up? How can we stop SQL server from thinking tyhat they are part of the backup set we are conccerned with?
We had our backups backing up to the server where the databases reside. Now I modified the backups to backup to a file share. Now when we try to restore from the file share the restore fails, so we have to copy the backup to a drive on the server and recover for there. Should I be able to restore directly from the file share (using the gui)? Do I need to change something else to modify the default backup drive?
I make two full backups on Oct 1 and Oct 10. I want to restore the server to a state in Oct 5. So I just do as follows:
1.Perform a transaction log backup on the server on Oct 23. I have never backup transaction log in the past. 2. Restore the server with Oct 1 full backup with NORECOVERY option. 3.Try to restore to the point at Oct 5 12:00, with the transaction log.
But the restore fails and SQL Server said the transaction log does not contain the point. The point is too early. Why? Also my .LDF file is about 13G, but the transaction log backup is only 200MB. Why?
I'm working on a restore procedure for the case where all MDF filesare missing, but the LDF files are all intact. A full backup is doneevery 24 hours, and a log backup is done every 3 hours. Afterrestoring the last full + log backups, is it at all possible to usethe LDF files to recover data from that point up to a newer point intime?I've found a post which explains how to do this on SQL Server 2000<http://groups.google.com/group/comp...s.ms-sqlserver/browse_thread/thread/3ef5c7cbc0a83334/f3b0c70811d35ed7>, but step 4fails with the following error message:BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current databasebackup.
I'm trying to test out a restore scenario for a large database. It contains several files, each one is backed up when we are finished inserting data into it. No changes are made to the data after insert. All changes happen in tables in the primary file group.
So, I backup the primary file, the log, the first "partitioned" file, the log, the next "partitioned" file, the log, etc, etc, etc. Now, I delete one of the tables residing on one of the partitioned files and want to restore it. For arguments sake, let's say I have a primary file, and 5 partitioned files. I delete the table which was on file 3.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the steps to restore under these circumstances. I thought I understood it but, apparently not. When I try to restore, I'm told I must first backup the tail of the log. Having done that, I restore file 3, and all subsequent log files. Now, I'm right back where I was (missing the deleted table). When I try to roll back to a point in time before the delete...it claims to be successful but, nothing perceptable is different...??
I'm trying to RESTORE LOG with a different recovery path. Is there a way to do this? I'm getting the below error. I know I could RESTORE from the beginning, but need to RESTORE the log file to the same database schema but different database and server. What steps do I need to do?
This backup set cannot be applied because it is on a recovery path that is inconsistent with the database. The recovery path is the sequence of data and log backups that have brought the database to a particular recovery point. Find a compatible backup to restore, or restore the rest of the database to match a recovery point within this backup set, which will restore the database to a different point in time. For more information about recovery paths, see SQL Server Books Online.
I have a file backup of a database from machine 1. I create an empty database with the same name on machine 2 and copied the backup file to machine 2. When I run a restore database, I get "Preceeding restore operation did not specify WITH NORECOVERY OR WITH STANDBY.Restart tehe restore sequence, specify the options for all but the final step. Restore failed"
Database : SQL 7.0 Trying to restore from the Enterprise manager
I just restored a SQL 7 db using the Enterprise Manager GUI interface. I selected the "Leave database nonoperational, but able to restore additional transaction logs" option. I should not have selected this option as I do not have any transaction logs to apply.
Anyway, my question is... Is there a way to mark the database as opertational without running the restore again?
