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
View 5 RepliesServer: SQL 2008 R2
1: TempDB keeps getting filled. Restart of the server has not fixed it. I shrink it, but the space gets filled again. Now I can't even shrink it anymore
2: TempDB is at the wrong location. Its current location is this :C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb
How do I change its location?
C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb
Correct location of TempDB should be: TempDB(T:) But its not there
In what scenario – diff and full backups have same size? My guess is excessive fragmentation, any thoughts?
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we have MS SQL 2005 Standard and we have setup Maint. Plans with the SQL Server Management Studio front end.
i didn't set this up, so if it's completely crazy, i'm just the messenger :)
we have two maintenance plans:
maintenance plan A (to generalize) runs its full back up, then generates its differential backups and transactional logs.
then maintenance plan B runs its full back up and generates differential backups on a second drive without transactional logs.
what appears to happen with this is MS SQL will only let us restore from the most recent differential, so if maintenance plan B's differential ran last, it renders maintenance plan A's differentials essentially useless.
the reason it was setup this way was that in theory, we wanted A to backup to one drive and B to backup to a drive that gets rotated for offsite backup.
if we're breaking diff backups, this isn't optimal. anyone have a better method for creating backups on primary backup drive and a swap out drive?
thanks
But i have one issue bothering me, it will be great if someone can help me out on this
1. I take full backup on Monday 8 pm which ends at 9.30 PM
2. Diff Backup starts at 10 PM every 2 hrs till Tuesday 7.59 PM
3. Transactional Log backup is happening every 10 min till tueday 7.59 PM
Now when i restore it in the same order i get error that Log in the set is too late to apply. I have recemmonded by team to stop log backup on the time they start full backups and take transactional log backup only after differentials are restored. Now is this a correct suggestion???
Also appendin the differential backup is a good idea or overwriting them is a better approach if Database is backedup every night and Differential occurs every 2 hrs.
I run two different types of backups on the same database.
A monthly full and nightly diffs appending to the same full file - file 'A'
A weekly full with 10 min trans log backups appending to same file - file 'B'- during working hours.
2 strategies, 2 backup files.
These are new strats that have gone live this week - tuesday in fact. The monthly and weekly both ran fine on tuesday as did the nightly diff and all the TS backups througout the day. last night - Weds - the nightly diff failed with the following error:
"
Executed as user: <USERNAME>. Cannot perform a differential backup for database "objectstore", because a current database backup does not exist. Perform a full database backup by reissuing BACKUP DATABASE, omitting the WITH DIFFERENTIAL option. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3035) BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013). The step failed.
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Whilst the error is perfectly legible I dont understand what its implying - cant I add multiple Diff backups to the same full backup OR is my weekly / 10 mins on the same database (but to a diff backup file) ballsing things up for me somehow? If this is the case how come everything ran fine on tuesday night?
Any help gets beers.
THanks
Alastair Jones.
"A computer once beat me at chess - but it was no match for me at kick boxing" - Emo Phillips.
I backup a database at the begining of each month with a full and then do nightly diffs on it.
For the same database I run daily fulls and 10 minute log backups.
these two backups create / append to two different backup files.
The problem im having is that I cant restore the Differential backup set. SQL seems to restore the full just fine but alwasy throws an error when its about to start to retore the last diff. now forgive me but I clicked OK on the message and I cant find any record of the error in the logs but its something like:
"SQL cannot restore the database as the database has not been restored to the previous correct state"
is my 10 min TS log backups screwing up the DIff chain somehow?
this is really doing my head in. any help appreciated.
"A computer once beat me at chess - but it was no match for me at kick boxing" - Emo Phillips.
I am interested to hear if people think it would be a good idea to movethe Master & TempDB to a different HD.Here is my DB Server's set up:1. Processor: (1) AMD XP 28002. 1st HD (IDE 0) is the system & boot drive3. (3) SCSI HD make up a hardware RAID level 0 (striped withoutparity)solution - these striped drives are just for my working DBs4. (1) SCSI HD that's not doing anything.I want to put the Master & TempDB on the SCSI HD that's not doinganything. Would that be the best place for it for maximum performance orshould I put in the striped array. I am leaning more towards putting onthe SCSI HD that's not doing anything. What do you all think?Ed*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
View 1 Replies View RelatedRegarding backups.
The first available time to do a full backup is at 11:00pm which also applies to diff. backups.
How often does the trans. logs need a back up?
Hi all,
I have a 1 TB network drive on a Windows 2005 sql server that is visible at the OS level.I am trying to use this for my SQL backups but this drive is not visible from SQL server. All the other drives appear fine except this drive. The OS team already checked everything and as its visible at the OS level they point to SQL server as the one having problems.
Any suggestion would help..
-Thanks all.
Documentation that supports the placement of Tempdb files on the root of a drive, i.e T: instead of T: empdb. I am positive this is not a best practice, but when challenged could not find any documentation that would support that view.
View 7 Replies View RelatedHello all ...
is there a standard procedure or document that explains how to:
Expand tempdb onto a faster drive ... making it larger
then ...
Remove the small portion of tempdb from my c: drive to reduce contention?
Thanks!
Doug
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
We are seeing very high Average Disk Queue Length numbers in one of our clusters (both nodes of the cluster are Virtual, but have their own dedicated virtual environments). Our main data drive also houses TempDB, which I would like to move.
Each node in the Active/Passive cluster are running Windows Server 2012 Standard 64bit and SQL Server 2012 Enterprise 64bit. There is a separate drive for Log files and data files.
The data files also have TempDB on them as previously mentioned. I am reading that you can set up a local disk on each node of the cluster, with the same drive letter and path and then move tempdb as you would with a stand alone SQL Server.
I have to perform disk maintenance on current drive - Drive 'D' where it has sql data (mdf file) and I have added new drive - Drive 'E' By the way Drive 'C' have the program files for SQL Server 2008 R2 What is the correct process to transfer sql data (mdf file) from Drive 'D' to Drive 'E' and later remove Drive 'D' from the server.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI just completed a copy-Only compressed backup of a DB (with a FULL Recovery Model ) on SQL Server 2012 and the resulting backup (the bak file) is 1/100th the size of the data & log file. Is the compression in SQL Server 2012 just that good or did something else happen that I did not catch? Below is the T-SQL to re-create the backup. The size of the data file is 750MB and the log file is 75GB and is %95 used according to the SQLPERF command.
Does the compression in SQL Server 2012 simply that good
BACKUP DATABASE [MYBIGOLEDB] TO DISK = N'Z:Microsoft SQL ServerMSSQL11.MSSQLSERVERMSSQLBackupMYBIGOLEDB_20150611.bak' WITH COPY_ONLY, NOFORMAT, INIT, NAME = N'MYBIGOLEDB-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, COMPRESSION, STATS = 10
GO
Hi, I back up SQL Server 2000 and SQL server 2005 databases to hard disk using the SQL Server Backup Wizard and maintenance plans. Then, I copy the resulting backups to tape using third party tape backup software and compression by the backup software and hardware. I do not use the SQL Server Agent available for the third party backup software. Is this acceptable, or does the compression performed by the third party backup system introduce opportunities for database corruption or other negative effects?
Thanks
We 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 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.
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.
Thanks in Advance.
Murali Raparla.
I proposed on a new server that we separate Data Files, Log Files, tempDB, Backups, etc. onto separate LUNS on a SAN with High Speed Solid State Drives.I was told that with the new technology with solid state SAN's that it would decrease performance and that it did not work the same way as it did when you had RAID 5's etc.I thought that if things were cared out correctly by a SAN Administrator they would know how to configure for optimal performance.
View 2 Replies View RelatedOn one of our SQL Server 2014 boxes each database has a copy-only full backup made every night, in addition to the maintenance plan schedule of a full backup weekly, daily differential backups and log backups.
When performing a PIT restore in SSMS the restore file list lists the most recent copy-only backup as the full backup to use, not the most recent plan full backup. I noticed that using SSMS 2008 to start a PIT restore on the 2014 box does not have this problem, and lists the correct restore file sequence (ignores the copy-only backups).
Hi
I have been trying to use openrowset with a shared drive, and even though the share has "full control" permissions granted to "everyone" and the accout that SQL runs under has been granted explicit full control permissions I am unable to open the file which itself has no security on it.
Can I not use a \ path and only use mapped drives?
Thanks
below works...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=C:5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
below doesn't work...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=\cluster02FileManager5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
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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What I have done is add another file to my file group. So now my log has a file on the 'e' drive and one on the 'f' drive. I now want to remove the file on the 'e' drive. I have emptied the file on the 'e' drive. When doing the command:
ALTER DATABASE Uniprodruntime
REMOVE FILE m_rk_runtime_log
I get the following error message..
Server: Msg 5020, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The primary data or log file cannot be removed from a database.
I have also gone into enterprise manager and tried to delete the file and it does nothing.
Has anyone run into this?
How do you compare SAN drive vs local drive on a 32 bit server?
Is it good idea to move my DB files to a SAN instead of local?
Canada DBA
Has anyone seen the SQL Server error:
"tempdb is skipped. You cannot run a query that requires tempdb"?
We're running a .Net web application with a SQL Server 2000 backend, and we get the error intermittently. Restarting the SQL Server service seems to fix it, as it causes tempdb to be rebuilt, but this isn't a long term solution. Any direction or hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
- Mike
Being a very novice SQL Server administrator, I need to ask the experts a question.
How do I go about moving a database from 1 drive to another? The source drive (C is local to the server, but the target drive (E is on a Storage Area Network (SAN), although it is still a local drive for the server. I want to move the database from C: to E:. Can someone provide me with instructions?
Thanks,
Rick
How to backup half of dbs from a server on C drive and the other half on D drive and vice versa, first half on D drive and other half On C drive using only one job and one stored procedure??
Using scheduling from job add 2 schedules to the job so first schedule backup first half to C and second half to D , the second schedule backup first half to D and second half to D.
I need to return the number of min from a table I am using the following query. But it gives me an error "Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Syntax error converting date time from character string". can someone please help.SELECT DateDiff(Mi, CAST((SCHDATE + ' ' + SUBSTRING(SCHTIME, 1,2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(SCHTIME, 3,4)) AS DateTime), CAST((ACTDATE + ' ' + SUBSTRING(ACTIME, 1,2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(ACTIME, 3,4)) AS DateTime)) AS StopMinutes, BACPY, BARTRM, BAORD, BSAPOR, BABLN, BSASSQ, BSACNO, CSTRDATA, BSASCY, BSASST, TTLREV, SHAALP, SCHDATE, SCHTIME, ACTDATE, ACTIME, OQTCOD, BAADES, PCS, WGT, Tractor, Driver FROM dbo.JCI_Delivery_Report
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi,
i have 3 fields: start_inspect_datetime, end_inspect_datetime, Diag_Hrs.
so i want to get the difference of start and end datetime=Diag_Hrs.
here i am using the below stored proc.
but i am getting only the hours or minutes or seconds.
so how to get the hours(if diff>59 mins),minutes(if diff>59 sec),seconds.
for Ex: here diff=185 sec. then Diag_hrs should be 3 hours,0 mins, 5 secs.
so how we'll get this.
pl help me out asap.
Thanx
reddy
select Asset_Diag_Hrs= DATEDIFF(hh,start_inspect_datetime,end_inspect_dat etime) from asset_diag_trans_table
--where Gpc_no=@GPC_no
--select Asset_Diag_Hrs=(datediff(mm,start_inspect_datetime ,end_inspect_datetime)) from asset_diag_trans_table
-- where Gpc_no=@GPC_no
select Asset_Diag_Seconds=(datediff(ss,start_inspect_date time,end_inspect_datetime) ) from asset_diag_trans_table
where Gpc_no=@GPC_no
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?
regards
Abhijit