When I go to the database restore tab the "backup history" window shows the database backups and log backups from all the way back when the database was initially created. How do I purge the old database and log backup entries?
View 1 RepliesWhat is the best way to restore a database from a folder of backups (including full, diff and log backups) without using the backup history in msdb?
I have a restore process that restores all backups on a regular schedule in order to fully verify their integrity. To do this, I use the backup history in msdb on each server that I'm monitoring. I had a thought the other day that I would be in trouble if I lost msdb. Then my backup history would only be as good as the last backup of msdb.
What I'd like to do is read a folder of backup files and generate a restore script up to a specified time. Would I use RESTORE HEADERONLY to do this? If so, would I use PowerShell to traverse each file in the folder?
Hello!
I created database snapshot in SQL Server 2005 and was restoring database from snapshot. I was wondering if there is a system table that stored history of snapshot restores similar to msdb.dbo.restorehistory.
Thanks,
Igor
Whenever I perform a backup or restore I receive the following message:
"A history record could not be written to msdb.sysbackuphistory..."
What can I do to resolve this error?
I have a backup mainentance plan that does a full backup daily at 03:00am and then 2 minute transaction log backups throughout the day to a raided hard drive (It is set to overwrite after 2 weeks), When i go into enterprise manager and select the database to restore it just seems to take too long to read the backup history in. Can this time be reduced as i need to be able to restore the database A.S.A.P but still need a point in time restore to within 2 minutes of going down??
Thanks
Hi,
While backing up our database, I am getting the following message:
Could not insert a backup or restore history/detail record in msdb.dbo.sysbackuphistory or sysrestorehistory. This may indicate a problem with the MSDB database. DUMP/LOAD was still successful. (Message 3009)
Does anybody have any resolution for the same ?
Thanks,
Rajan
hello,
I'm am looking for a smart solution for keeping history of changes in records in my sql database. Not only history of a record but also which user caused the change and when (I have the username in session).
for now I added 4 fields to each table: "created by","created on","cancelled by",cancelled on", when the user create a record the 2 first fields are filled and and a user delete a record the two last fields are filled and the record is not really deleted but it won't be shown again (I'm using "where createdby is null").
this solution is taking the performance down and it does not solve the editing record tracking. creating new records and cancelling old ones for editing/changing solve that but than I m having problems with the primary key and relations to other tables.
I tried also to use a table that holds records that descirbes every change in records in my tables. it's very hard to search old data that way.
I know that oracle databases has a smart solution for history... please someone advise me..
Elad.
Does anyone currently do this. I want to store an audit history for changes made in the database through our web application.
I would like some kind of history table structure. I would be interested to see if anyone else has done this and what your structure looks like.
ScAndal
I'm creating a db to be used to store historical trades which will then be used to report on various strategies/returns etc...
I'm struggling with the correct way to store things like price etc...
Right now I have a table tStock which has pkStockId,StockName,Sector
I have a table tPrice which stores the historical prices which has pkCounter,fkTickerId,fkDate,Price,Volume. This seems odd to me since dates are being repeated. Right now I have about 100 stocks in table tStock and the tPrice table has 10 years of price data for each stock so there are a date range of historical prices which is approximately 252,000 records. That isn't a ton but I will probably end up with 500+ stocks and 20 years of data. Am I storing this correctly? Right now I have the pkStockId indexed and the pkCounter index and I also created an indes using fkTickerId and fkDate. Is there a way to create the tables such that looking up a price is faster? The reason I would like it to be faster is that when analyzing the trade history I need to get the portfolio market values based on various dates so at a certain date I will sum all buys - all sales for every stockid in the portfolio table and then look up the prices for each to get the market value of the portfolio on a particular day. I feel like I am missing something in the design process but don't have experience in this so I am asking for help.
Thanks
I was asked to determine the last time 2 databases were accessed.
Are the .trc files an accurate way to determine the database access history?
I have seen this before. A 2000 restore fails, leaving the database thinking it is being restored but the restore job failed and errors when it is restarted. EM is clueless. I believe there is a proc to reset some flag. Can you share it with me???
Thanks!
If there is a history kept somewhere of failover events of a database in an AO group? I have 2 replicas with automatic failover and I'm looking for a history of failovers.
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Trying to keep out sysadmins & sa during/between database RESTORE
Configuration:
WINNT Server Enterprise 4.0 w/SP5
SQL Server 7 Enterprise & SP1
2 SQL Servers:
Production Server
Standby server
I Backup (full backup) databases to disk on primary server (logical backup devices are physicaly located on a Standby server (dedicated gigabit NIC in each server for this process). Transaction logs are applied to the Standby server throughout the day.
Problem:
How to keep out "sa" and sysadmins from a database while I'm restoring (or between restores) to a standby server?
The database being restored cannot be in use during a restore.
If a DBA forgets that this process is happening, the statement fails (RESTORE)for the database they happen to be in at the time of the restore.
Example restore statement:
Standby Server -
RESTORE DATABASE databasename FROM database_dd WITH DBO_ONLY, REPLACE, STANDBY = 'g:Mssql7FromPrimaryDatabaseName_undo.ldf'
I could restrict Domain sysadmin access and change sa password. I could also put the database in "Single user" mode, however this could become problem if my process disconnects and then someone else connects - then my process is locked out. What I'm really looking for is to lock out all activity for a database that is in "standby mode" except for RESTORE processes.
Any ideas??
Wade
wadej@vailresorts.com
I'm taking a database(read-only) backup from one server and restoring it on other server. As soon as restore is done it is bringing database into single-user read-only mode.
why it is bringing the database into single user mode ?
Hello,i am in great trouble. I want to revert back to original state ofdatabase before i performed restore database on my sql server 2KDatabase. Accidently i didn't take backup of my Database and i didrestore, so is there any way to get the original state back of myDatabase?Any suggestion will be highly appriciated.Regards,S. Domadia.
View 2 Replies View RelatedAnybody figure a way around this:
In a development server you take a backup and you want to move the entire database to a production server. The production server does not contain the database, users, or logins in master.
When you restore the backup to production in 7.0, the users get moved to DBO because the logins do not exist and then you cannot delete them.
We are having to drop the users from the database on development, back up the database and restore it to production, then recreate the users on production.
This is bogus and did not happen in 6.5 because of the aliases.
Anybody come up with a better way?
I am fairly new to VS 2005 and SQL Server CE. I have developed a Desktop Windows application using VB 2005 and the SQL Compact Edition Database. This application will sell to users via web download.
When they download a service patch, or updated version, I wish for them to retain the data in their present database. In other words, fill the new database with the old data. The new table structures will remain intact except for added columns at the end.
Question is how to save the old data and update the new database with it. Is there an easy way to do this, or do I need to write a module to save a database copy, and update the new database with content at install time?
I have a problem when i restore my .DAT_BAK file. I am getting error like "The backup set holds a backup of a database other than existing database. Restore Database is terminating abnormally".
I tried by using
RESTORE DATABASE <DATABASENAME>
FROM DISK = 'D:DATAMYTEST.DAT_BAK'
WITH MOVE 'VZAI_DATA' TO D:PROGRAM FILES..MSSQLTEST.MDF',
MOVE 'VZAI_LOG' TO D:PROGRAM FILES..MSSQLTEST.LDF',
REPLACE
And also i tried like
RESTORE DATABASE <DATABASENAME>
FROM DISK = 'D:DATAMYTEST.DAT_BAK'
WITH REPLACE
When i use like this,
RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK = 'D:DATAMYTEST.DAT_BAK'. I am able to get the output as LogicalName, PhysicalName, Type, FileGroupName, Size, etc.
Can i anyone please help me out?
Thanks in Advance,
Anand Rajagopal
Sometime during the night last night some user account permissions were "lost". Am I right to think that restoring the master database would be the way to go? We have a 2 node 2012 cluster and I stop the cluster resource and start the db in single user mode from the active node. Somehow the sharepoint farm is still trying to connect so I can't get logged in single user. What method could I use to stop users from connecting when I don't have access to the sharepoint farm.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi have a development database that has updates and changes to a production database. rather than go through individually and alter all relevant tables and stored procedures, id like to back up the database on the development side and restore it on the production side as the production database. is there a way to restore the database on the production server but preserve all the security settings (ie logins and such)? i noticed on our development server, that if i try to restore the database with my development database, it overwrites the users and/or if the user is the same on both, it removes the login name for that user.
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I was wondering how I could restore a bkp file into a database with a different name. For example, I made a backup of T1.mdf and i want to restore t1.bkp to T2.mdf.
I am using VB.Net to do the backup and restore.
Is there any way of doing it?
Thanks!
I have a client that has POS software called Restaurant Pro Express (RPE) from [URL] ...
Their old POS computer had a hardware failure, but I was able to attach the hard-drive to another computer and recover the data. RPE uses a MSSQL database system. However, my client doesn't seem to make backups very often
- the last one is dated January 5, 2015. I was able to copy the C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server folder over which contained the instance as well as all the data files - and has up-to-date information. The instance in the recovered Microsoft SQL Server folder was called MSSQL.1. I installed the RPE software on their new computer, and it too now has an instance called MSSQL10_50.PCAMERICA. The new computer is using MSSQL 2008 R2, while I believe the old computer would have been using MSSQL 2005.
I am no DBA expert, especially when it comes to MSSQL. Is is possible to 'restore' the database from the 'raw' .mdf and .ldf files of the old computer to the new computer / database instance? If so, how should I proceed?
I had a major disk failure, and the only SQL Server files I was able to recover were master.dat, msdb.dat,msdblog.dat, two text files and two database devices. My question, is it possible in SQL 6.5 to restore a database from just the database device, and if so, how? Thank you.
MH
Hi,
I need to restore a database to different server.
Orignal .mdf is 16 G, Now on the new serever I have 16 G adn 12 G of drive space available.
Is there a way i can split the data of 1 mdf over to 2 or 3 data files on the new server ?
Thanks in advance.
:confused:
hi
how can restore database when user use this database.?
to posibility any error and how can solution
I'm a newbie so please be gentle.In attempting to run a restore I get the following error message:"Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is inuse." However, it doesn't appear that there are any connections to thedatabase. At the suggestion of another thread, I ran sp_who2 and thereare no connections to the database in question. I've been running thesame restore for months and all has been well, until yesterday....I wrote an .asp page (below) to test connectivity to this database.The vb code ran successfully and soon thereafter, my nightly restorefailed. Task manager does no show that the asp page is active.Lastly, I did add a user ("jbtest") as well as change the option to useeither Windows authentication or SQL Server authentication inEnterprise Manager.Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.Thanks.<%@ Language=VBScript %><%companyName = "agemni"Set cnn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")cnn.ConnectionString = "DRIVER=SQLServer;SERVER=SHEELA-NA-GIG;UID=jbtest;PWD=test1;APP=MicrosoftDevelopment Environment;WSID=SHEELA-NA-GIG;DATABASE=" & companyName &";Trusted_Connection=No"cnn.ConnectionTimeout = 300cnn.CommandTimeout = 300cnn.OpenSet RS = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")strSQL = "SELECT * FROM Preferences"RS.Open strSQL, cnnResponse.Write "connection established with the <b>" & RS("CompanyName") & "</b> database. They are a <b>" & RS("street") & "</b>customer. "RS.CloseSet RS = Nothing%>
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a backup of an SQL Server database named "UserData.bak" now i want Restore this backup to my SQL Server.pls tell me whole process.Can i also restore it to MS-Access, if possible pls do let me know. Thanks
View 5 Replies View RelatedI want to add a new table to a database on a server. I assume the best way to do this is to backup db on sever, restore to local computer, add table, backup local, and restore to server. (If there is a better way, I am open).
I can backup the database on the server and get the backup to my local computer. However, when I use SQL Server Management Studio Express to restore the .bak file to my computer, I get the following error:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express------------------------------
Restore failed for Server '\.pipe282F14E7-8852-4B sqlquery'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.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=Restore+Server&LinkId=20476
------------------------------ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: RESTORE cannot process database 'C:USERSDEBORAHDOCUMENTSMY WEB SITESMHRRCSK3BETA1APP_DATAMHRRCDB.MDF' because it is in use by this session. It is recommended that the master database be used when performing this operation. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.Smo)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.3042.00&LinkId=20476
------------------------------BUTTONS:
OK------------------------------
So, I am not sure what to do next ... I have followed the links above to see there is no information. Any ideas? Thanks for helping this newbie.
The data in one of the tables in my datables got deleted.
I want to restore my database to an earlier time, but don't know how.
I'm not sure if I have any backups, I wasn't making any myself.
All I have is the ldf file, but I don't know how to open it or what it contains.
On a test server I had deleted the .MDF to testdb, before deleting the .mdf
I had backup the database inserted some records into a table and then backup
the transaction log.
I brought the server down and back up then did the following:
use master
go
BACKUP LOG test
TO TestRestore_Log2_Backup
WITH NO_TRUNCATE
GO
RESTORE DATABASE test
FROM Test_Backup
WITH NORECOVERY
GO
RESTORE LOG test
FROM TestRestore_Log1_Backup
WITH NORECOVERY
GO
RESTORE LOG test
FROM TestRestore_Log2_Backup
WITH NORECOVERY
I receive all kinds of errors like:
Primary file not available for database 'test'
( i'm sure that's because the .mdf is gone),One or more devices or files already exist use REPLACE, Which is fine but when I do I only get the full back and not the latest transaction log?
I was restoring a database from a backup I had made about a month ago and it gave me an error. I don't remember what it said exactly, but I know that it had to do w/ restoring the transaction log. Now, I can't access the database at all. When I try to access it through enterprise manager, it says "An error occurred while trying to access the database information." If I try through Query Analyzer, it says that the database is in the middle of a restore. I checked the sysprocesses table and there is nothing running against this database.
Is there anyway to recover this database, or am I going to have to recreate it from scratch. Please tell me I can recover the database!!!!
Chris
I have 2 servers SQl server 7 and 2000.
I got a backup file from the customer for one of the database. So I created a new database using similar script as below
create database TESTUP
ON
(NAME = TESTUPDATA,
FILENAME='C:PROGRAM FILESMSSQL7DATATESTUPDATA.dat',
SIZE=10GB)
LOG ON
(NAME = TESTUPLOG,
FILENAME='C:PROGRAM FILESMSSQL7DATATESTUPLOG.dat',
MAXSIZE=500MB)
GO
sp_addlogin TESTUP, TESTUP, TESTUP
GO
USE TESTUP
GO
sp_adduser TESTUP
GO
When I use enterprise manager to force restore that backup copy to this database I just created, even though I have setup maxsize for LOG as 500 MB it still gets all their logs 50 GB !!! I do not want their logs in the 1st place and then I tried to restrict them I could not do so.
So I restored it as it was urgent and then tried to shrink the datafiles for LOGS but they did not shrunk much.
Is their any way to avoid getting the transaction logs during the restore ???
In other words can just get the datafiles and not the transaction logs ?
Thnaks
Sonali
I have a database that was not backed up and needs to be restored after an os crash. SQL was stopped gracefully and the server was rebooted, the os crashed and was reloaded, now sql is installed and I need to know if there is a way to restore the .mdf and .ldf files to the sql server.
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