Disaster Recovery: SQL Server 2000 On Win 2000 Server.
Sep 13, 2007
This past Monday, our Raid 5 array failed on our SQL 2000 server (standard edition). Long story short, we were able to get the data back, mostly. In SQL server Ent. Mgr., I had to restore 4 databases that were 'Suspect' and "greyed out". No problems there... I was able to restore them.
What was interesting was that the SQL Server Agent would not start. As it turned out, a few files were either corrupt or missing after we got the machine back up. We had to restore a few files from tape backup and now the SQL Server Agent starts... but now I have a new problem.
For some reason, my default SQL Server Agent "Job" that is scheduled to run once per day fails. It appears that all of the databases get backed up, but for some reason, the msdbdata.mdf database is NOT being backed up.
I have a few questions. Could my msdbdata.mdf be corrupt? I have a successful backup of the msdbdata.mdf table from 9/10/2007. Can I just restore from that? Will there be any repercussions to any of the other database tables if I do?
Furthermore, should I just restore the msdbdata.mdf, master.mdf and the model.mdf? I really have no idea what these tables do and the repercussions of modifying them. I am not a DBA (obviously) and I just don't want to make an mistakes.
Thanks, CFDev.
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Sep 27, 2006
I currently work for a company that has had a "family business" mentality for many years. The only trouble is, it has grown into a fairly large company over the years and that mentality just doesn't cut it anymore (We have around 200 employees in 2 offices, and 25-50 remote users).
I have recently taken over the role of System Administrator, and I'm having a lot of trouble trying to get everything under wraps. There are a LOT of un-documented things happening with our database/web server, and in order to keep things safe & secure, I need to try & flesh out what those mystery settings would be. I feel that NOW is the time to get some solid documentation down, to protect my ass before some critical failure happens.
I'm wading into unknown waters here, and I'm hoping that somebody who's "been there" might have some tips to make my life a little easier.
I have an IBM Bladecenter, and a spare blade with which I can use to re-produce as close to a mirror copy of our system as possible. I have installed windows 2003 /w SQL2000 and restored a full backup of our databases and imported all database user accounts, and logins. What about Maintenance Jobs? Error Logs? Patches/Hotfixes? Service accounts? Membership roles? System databases? ODBC Sources? Services? Startup Scripts? I'm sure the list could go on & on... What are some of the crucial details I should look into?
Has anybody been in this boat before having little knowledge of what was built before you arrived, and have any insight on how to get through this without too much headache?
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Sep 9, 2006
Hi,
Sorry for the wide distribution.
I'm trying to find any useful whitepapers about how to effectively build and operate a disaster recovery site at a remote location for SQL Server 2000. Does anyone know where to find such information?
I also know that one good option for my customer is using the Mirroring feature of SQL Server 2005. What are the other options? Is Replication an effective one for a mission-critical database (online banking)?
Thanks in advance
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Aug 17, 2015
We have a requirement to build SQL environment which will give us local high availability and disaster recovery to second site. We have two sites- Site A & Site B. We are planning to have two nodes at Site A and 2 nodes at Site B. All four nodes will be part of same Windows failover cluster. We will build two SQL Cluster, InstanceA will be clustered between the nodes at Site A Server and InstanceB will be clustered between the nodes at Site B, we will enable Always On Between the InstanceA and InstanceB and will be primary owner where data will be written on InstanceA and will be replicated to InstaceB. URL....Now we want we will have instanceC on the Site B and data will be writen from the application available on Site B, will be replicated to the instance on the Site A as replica.
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Jan 15, 2001
Recently I watched Microsoft Support WebCast: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Common Problems and Resolutions dated August 29, 2000. I am trying to find information for a total disaster recovery for my server. In the webcast the presenter made a reference to a Microsoft article Q240872, "How to Resolve Permission Issues When a Database is Moved Between SQL Servers?". I can't find this article. Since we are working with the scenerio of total diaster, we are starting with a new server. I know that when we tried to recover a database to a new server, the server recognized that the database did not originate on that server. Does anyone have any ideas? Or does anyone know how to contact Microsoft so I can find out how to get a copy of this article?
Thanks!
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Jul 25, 2007
I am part of a team developing a Disaster Recovery plan for our company, most of the data is in SQL Server 2000, and Visual Foxpro, what are the best options of backing up this data to one remote site, and being able to failover to those servers in case of a disaster.
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Nov 28, 2000
I need to know if anybody has any suggestions on websites to visits, documents or templates that will give examples on how to set up a Disaster Recovery Plan for SQL Server 7.0 Databases. I am mostly interested in the Documentation portion to acquire knowledge on the various methodologies used out there. I am a Jr DBA and would appreciate any feedback.
Thanks.
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Mar 15, 2007
We have 10 SSIS packages which are deployed on 2 servers. (at different geographical locations)
On both the servers we will install all the 10 packages, but on server1 we will enable 1 - 5 and server2 we will enable 6 to 10.
the idea is that if server1 goes down we enable all the 10 on server2 (and vise-versa).
Is this the best way to implement disaster recovery of SSIS packages? We want that in all cases of failure the SSIS packages are ready to process the ETL: tasks.
regards,
Abhishek.
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Nov 28, 2007
Folks:
Is it possible to setup a Disaster Recovery server for Reporting services (Databases: ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB)? If so, will loading these 2 databases (Log shipping) allow to me access the same reports as in Production server. Is there anything which I have to do on DR Server when the Production site is down?
Thanks!
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Feb 16, 2007
does anyone know of any potential issues of using a 32 bit sql server 2005 instance used for disaster recovery of a 64 bit sql 2005 cluster ?
thanks
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Sep 15, 2006
Hello,
I would like to restore SQL Server Express and its databases from a tape backup to the same server. This is a disaster recovery senario.
I backed up the Master, Model, MSDB and my own test database using SQLCMD scripts. I have no problem restoring these using task manager on the server before the disaster recovery.
However, in my real disaster recovery testing, When the server is restored by tape drive (HP one button disaster recovery), I try to run my SQLCMD restore scripts in task manager and I cannot connect to the sql server. Also I cannot connect with Management studio. I have recieved the following error in event viewer.
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS
Event Category: (2)
Event ID: 3411
Date: 9/15/2006
Time: 8:16:36 AM
User: N/A
Computer: COPLEYNEWS
Description:
Configuration block version 0 is not a valid version number. SQL Server is exiting. Restore the master database or reinstall.
Data:
0000: 53 0d 00 00 15 00 00 00 S.......
0008: 16 00 00 00 43 00 4f 00 ....C.O.
0010: 50 00 4c 00 45 00 59 00 P.L.E.Y.
0018: 4e 00 45 00 57 00 53 00 N.E.W.S.
0020: 5c 00 53 00 51 00 4c 00 .S.Q.L.
0028: 45 00 58 00 50 00 52 00 E.X.P.R.
0030: 45 00 53 00 53 00 00 00 E.S.S...
0038: 00 00 00 00 ....
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: SQLBrowser
Event Category: None
Event ID: 3
Date: 9/15/2006
Time: 8:16:36 AM
User: N/A
Computer: COPLEYNEWS
Description:
The configuration of the AdminConnectionTCP protocol in the SQL instance SQLEXPRESS is not valid.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7024
Date: 9/15/2006
Time: 8:16:36 AM
User: N/A
Computer: COPLEYNEWS
Description:
The SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS) service terminated with service-specific error 3411.
C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90ToolsBinn>sqlcmd -S.SQLExpr
COPLEYNEWSDATABASEscriptsMASTERFULLRESTORE.sql"
HResult 0x2, Level 16, State 1
Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [2].
Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft SQL Native Client : An error has occurred whi
shing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005,
re may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Serve
allow remote connections..
Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft SQL Native Client : Login timeout expired.
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My question is, what is the correct procedure to follow when I want to do a disaster recovery and restore SQL Server Express from tape backup using the Simple Backup method and scripts.
Is it always required to reinstall sql server express from the original program file or is it possible to reinstall from back up tape.
I know my backup and restore scripts work because I tested them on the server before I do the disaster recovery and rebuild that server from tape.
This is some kind of issue with SQL Server Express being restored by tape backup.
Any suggestions, thanks.
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Jul 28, 2007
Unfortunately a table is Deleted by me from my database.
Now How I can Recover that
I have no data and structure of that table Now.
It Was Very IMP. Table .
So Plz Help.......
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Sep 25, 2007
I have SQL Server 2000 Standard Version backups going to Disk then we have Legato Networker Software to make backups of these backup directories to TAPE.
When we retrieve the file from the TAPE and use to recover the database we get the following errors: (Notice some work and some do not. This is from command 'restore verifyonly from disk='
Server: Msg 3242, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
The file on device '\backupfilersqlbackupsqlserver
ecovered_iis_mainsqlbackupsqlserveriss_mainiss_main_tlog_200709210130.TRN' is not a valid Microsoft Tape Format backup set.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
VERIFY DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
The backup set is valid.
The backup set is valid.
Server: Msg 3242, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
The file on device '\backupfilersqlbackupsqlserver
ecovered_iis_mainsqlbackupsqlserveriss_mainiss_main_tlog_200709180130.TRN' is not a valid Microsoft Tape Format backup set.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
VERIFY DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
The backup set is valid.
The backup set is valid.
If I take the original backup file that are on disk they are all valid.
Thanks for any help that can lead me to the solution
Mike
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Feb 3, 2008
I am a SQL lightweight and I tried to update the data on the test SQL server with the data on the production server and now the test SQL server won't start.
I was trying to move a sql database from our production server to our test server and things got mucked up. I think where I went wrong is that I tried to backup the database on the Production server and then restore it to the test server. I think I should have backup the production server and then detached the databases from the test server and then attached the backups. I got in a hurry and had an attitude that SQL is so good that if I mess up, I can recover.
These are the databases I recovered to test server:
Builder
CSales
CIB
Master
Model
MSDBdata
Now SQL server won€™t start and I get the error message that the database Model is in the middle of being restored. We are on SQL 2000. I tried to start from a command line with the €“f switch and it still can€™t come up.
Should I reinstall SQL and then attach the databases?
Do I need to bring over the Master, Model and MSDBdata data bases from the production servers.
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Jul 21, 2007
Is there any need to re-apply SP4 to sql server 2000 if a user database has been restored to it from a non-service packed sql 2000 server.
We inadvertantly did this after a flood and later realised that the log shipped server at the other site was not not service packed.
Does service pack 4 update user databases in any way?
We have not had any major issues with this but I need to rule this out when considering performance issues and so on that have been raised since the recovery.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Feb 24, 2005
Hello, i have a question that the sql server 2000 is install in window 2000 server. If i want to update to window 2003. Is that any problem in sql server 2000. I am worry about whether we will have problem after update. What i need to do? Many thanks.
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Sep 10, 2015
If you are doing a disaster recovery of an entire SQL 2005 cluster, can you just install SQL server and restore the system database to get the configuration?
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Feb 28, 2008
Hi All,
I would like to know, how the datetime will be stored in the sqlserver datetime column.
Because some time i am giving the date in dd/mm/yyyy and sometime mm/dd/yyyy.
while give the date in mm/dd/yyyy works fine but not in the another case. and also while i execute a query on query analyser it shows the datetime in
yyyy/mm/dd format.
So anyone can please tell me how the dates will be stored in the datetime column of sqlserver database?
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Dhanasekaran. G
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Sep 14, 2004
I am currently running SQL Server 2000 Standard on my production system, and I am looking to upgrade the system to Windows 2000 Adv. Server. I would also like to upgrade SQL Server 2000 Standard to SQL Server 2000 Enterprise to utilize more than 2GB of memory. Can anyone tell me what is the best way to upgrade the system, and please provide some feedback on your experiences with the upgrade. Thanks in advance.
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Jul 20, 2005
We are experiencing a problem with Sql Server 2000 linking to anAccess 97 file. We have two machines that link to this .mdb file, andwe recently upgraded one to newer hardware, SP3a, MDAC 2.8, etc. Thelink on this upgraded machine no longer works, giving this message:Server: Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' reported an error.[OLE/DB provider returned message: Cannot open a database created witha previous version of your application.]OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'IDBInitialize::Initialize returned 0x80004005: ].The link on the older machine still works. We decided to tryconverting a copy of the file to Access 2000 to see if the newerpatches/drivers/whatever no longer supported 97. We set up a link onboth machines to this file, and they both work. However, on theupgraded machine, the following error is receievedServer: Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' reported an error.[OLE/DB provider returned message: System resource exceeded.]OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'ICommandText::Execute returned 0x80004005: ].when making 1-3 connections to the the linked server, while the oldermachine supports at least 7 simultaneous queries connecting to thelinked server and still hasn't produced that error.Does anyone have any idea if there is a known issue with linking toAccess 97/2000 files under MDAC 2.8, Jet 4.0, etc? Any light anyonecan shine on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
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Jul 20, 2005
What is the limitation of memory that SQL Server 2000 Standard can usewhen running on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server platform?
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Sep 15, 2006
Hi, I need to know if somebody knows like making the update of Standard SQL 2000 to Enterprise. Greetings.
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Feb 23, 2004
Hello,
I have a problem. I am trying to set up a disaster recovery plan and have ran into some problems. Just so you are aware, we have tried setting up replication but it failed since the database does not have primary keys(don't ask--I have no control) and we have tried to set up log shipping but we do not have the Enterprise version of SQL server so that won't work. The database is over 200GB so shipping by tape or transferring full backups across the wire is impractical. So basically my question is - "What other options can we explore for setting up disaster recovery that do not involve 'substantial' expenditures?"
There is a direct connection set up between the off site data store.
Thanks
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May 11, 2000
I have the Master, Msdb and User Database dumps. I want to build another server with the avilable dumps.
Please help me....
Clark
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Feb 2, 2001
Hi,
A test server I was developing on has died and all of my good work was on it.
However I have a copy of the Data folder containing the folloing files:
Test_Data.MDF
Test_Log.LDF
Is it possible to restore my database from these files?
If so how would I go about it?
Many thanks in advance!
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Dec 23, 2002
I'm looking for something beyond trying to recover databases and/or SQLServer. My group has been tasked with documenting the recovery for 30+ servers that make up our applications infrastructure including SQL, Web, etc. I posted this here as opposed to another forum because I couldn't even find disaster recovery related topics in the other forums.
Our Systems group (Lan, Wan, etc.) isn't really much help at all. Their focus is more on the mainframe and Novell network recovery. Their perspective is that they will get any replacement server back on line in the event of failure but we are on our own from there.
There are three disaster scenarios for which we must plan: 1) A 737 does a nose dive into the Data Center. 2) A hurricane floods the Data Center. 3) A server gets smoked for whatever reason and is no longer useable.
Assume...
- that there were enough survivors to rebuild the network infrastructure at a remote site.
- we have to recover the operating system, additional software, IIS, SQL, applications, etc.
Questions:
What's the best way to capture the server's configuration on an automated basis?
What's the best way to recover the configuration mentioned above?
How do you maintain a current snapshot of any particular server and how do you ensure there's a documented history of the changes?
Does anybody use a centralized backup system? OmniBack, BackupExec?
What's the best/fastest way to get the replacement equipment?
Where else can I look to find this information?
Have I asked all the questions that I should or can you think of one I've missed?
Confused? Ask any questions you wish.
Sidney Ives
Database Administrator.
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Mar 17, 2004
Yikes! I lost my autoloader bakcup device along with my SQL2K Server. I reinstalled Win2k and now can see my RAID partitions where I had SQL server installed, along with all of the files. Since my tape backup is dead, I cannot simply restore from media. I'd like to reinstall SQL Server and then somehow grab the files on the partition and restore all of the data back to where things were. Is this even possible? If so, could someone help me out? I am worried by reading this list that my primary application (Sharepoint) will not be able to be restored because of security issues. Any ideas on that?
I appreciate any help you can provide.
-Den
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Oct 30, 2007
Hi Experts,
I am planning to create a disaster recovery site for my production database server. But I am not able to identify which option to choose. Not sure if I should go with database mirroring or transactional replication.
What are the pros and cons of each option?
Production and disaster recovery site location will be geographically very far.
please help
Regards,
S
Don't sit back because of failure. It will come back to check if you still available. -- Binu
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I'm looking for a proven method and documenation on recovering a publisher that is also the distributor. I have had problems with subscribers failing and database corruption on subscribtion databases. I do not have any documentation or experience in recovering a publisher that also is it's own distributor. Please point me in the right direction for this and any in house documentation that may not be published to the public would be great.
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Nov 24, 2006
I used to have WSS 3.0 Beta version, to update that to B2TR i got a problem and for which i require to reinstall the WSS again. Now I have the old WSS_Content.mdf and WSS_Content.ldf. I want this old site content tranfer to the current one.
How can I restore the data of this Site Content Database to the new one which I have newly created.
The mdf size is 3 gb and the ldf is nearly 8 gb.
Immediate response is highly appretiated.
Regards,
Raj
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Mar 15, 2006
Thanks in advance. What is maximum SQL Server database (*.mdf) file size with SQL Server 2000 as part of Microsoft Small Business Server 2000? (Database files were limited to 10 GB in SBS 4.5 with SQLServer 7.0... has this changed?).
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May 21, 2005
Can you install Sql Server 2000 Developer Edition with MSDE 2000 release A already installed?
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Feb 17, 2004
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I downloaded MSDE and am having trouble installing it, no doubt because I do not understand the documentaion (ReadMeMSDE2000A.htm).
When I try to run setup, I get that message that says:
"A strong SA password is required for security reasons. Please use SAPWD switch to supply the same."
Considering my purpose, do I need a "strong" SA password? If not, how do I get around it? If yes, how do I set it up?
I am a Mac user so I have poor windows skills, please make it as painless as possible for me, thanks!
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