Distaster Recover
Mar 9, 2007
OS: Windows 2003 Standard Edition
MS SQL: Standard Server 2005
I am looking to implement a disaster recovery plan for an MS SQL 2005 server, this is what I have done so far but would like the benefit of your experience to provide feedback and help improve the strategy.
MS SQL Server:
I have two maintenance plans, one to backup the system databases to individual backup files (.bak) and one to backup all the user databases to a backup device (mssql_backup) The backup files & device are in a directory (backup) and is backed up using NFS. I keep a copy of the backups on a USB HD which is stored offsite.
Disaster:
Office burnt down
Recovery:
New server, install OS/MSSQL, patch up to same version as burnt server.
Copy .bak files to new server, copy mssql_backup file to same location as previously held i.e. X:ackupmssql_backup
Start MS SQL in single user mode, restore master database using .bak.
Start MS SQL in normal mode, restore other system databases using .bak
Restore user databases using mssql_backup device
Testing:
Using the above steps I was able to restore up to the point of "user databases" Getting to this point I realised that there are a number of databases to restore, in my novice ways this seems to be a lot of right-clicking and restoring.
1) is there a command that would in effect be able to restore all databases using the backup device?
2) do I have a working version of the databases to the point of the last backup? Or am I missing something?
3) in my current setup in mind (SQL backup to NFS directory and picked up my backup software) is there a 'better' way I could be doing this which would make the restoration procedure more efficient
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Feb 2, 2007
Is there a way to recover the database without defining a device to restore from?
Restore Database TestDB With Recovery
MTmace
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Feb 1, 2008
Hi,
By mistake i've damaged my .mdf file and i have no backup on this database . However i have the transaction log intact and an older version of the database .
Is it possible to recover the database using the transaction log? How can it be done?
I do not have the transaction log backup, just the .ldf file.
Thanks to anyone who can help me.
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Aug 25, 2004
I had MS SQL installed on my comp.I had to reformat my hard drive due to some problems.There was a db in the sql server which i needed.So i saved the .mdf & .sdf files.Then i installed sql server in the formatted hard drive & pasted the .mdf & .ldf files in the Data forlder in MSSQL folder.But the problem is that even after doing this the enterprise manager doesnt show that database.Can anyone help me with this?Is there any way to recover the database?
Thanks a lot
P.S.- I also have whole of the earlier MSSQL folder present in the earlier program files backed up.Would that help in anyway.
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Hello, everyone:
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Nov 23, 2004
Hi
I've had a powerfailure, that resulted in I had to scratch my DB server, I've managed to get all the .mdf and .ldf files from the server. On the new server I get a "Error 823: I/O error (torn page)" when I'm trying to attach the .mdf file to the New server.
Both the new and the old server is a win2003 with SQL 2000 SP3
Is there anybody who knows how I can recover the DB?
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Oct 6, 2005
Hello,
Is it possible to restore a SQL 2000 database with data from a transaction log?
I am not sure what happened to my database, all the data in the tables is gone. I generated a db script to create a duplicate database. I saved the .sql file on my local machine, separate from the db server, renamed the database name in the .sql file to a new database. Tested script in query analyzer for syntax, all was fine. Running it at this point would have created a new database with a different name, right?
Now my original database is empty. Can someone please provide me with information on getting my data back. Is there a way of using the transaction log to recover the data.
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Hi
I need help to recover database from its MDF & ldf files as my server crahsed today .
BTW i installed afresh copy of MS SQL 7.0
I need to be able to restore the database. Pls reply if
you can help. It would be greatly appreciated.
:( :confused:
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Aug 5, 2005
Paul,
Having read your useful insight into the sorts of issues around the corruptions that folk have posted in this forum I'm interested in preparing for the day when one of our servers gets corrupted :-(
Should I expect to be able to:
Restore FULL backup from Before the corruption first happened
Restore all Tranaction log backups since
and would get me back to ground zero?
I'm thinking:
if I do a DBCC CHECKDB once a week, say, immediately after a FULL backup - then if that gives me some error messages I've got last weeks Full backup and a weeks worth of Trans Log Backups to restore - which is OK for a rare disaster.
I apprecaite that the thing that caused the corruption might be a memory or disk fault, which might also have broken the creation of the backup files too - in which case I'm fairly stuffed!
Does a RESTORE do a checksum of somesort that would detect a corruption caused by, say, a memory fault or a disk controller that wrote the block faultily [twiddled some bits, but did not report error]?
In which case continuous restores of backup files to A.N.Other server would discover the moment at which a backup was "known bad"
Am I close?
Thanks
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raju writes "while attaching the mdf file we are getting the following error
error 823
i/o error (bad page id) detected during read at offset
0x0000001404000 in file d:filename"
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Hi All,
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Hello,
I have some procedure in SQL Server 7.3 they are
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it not opening Query Analizer or any other tool
in SQL Server ok.
I have no back of my procedures which are written
in SQL Server any where like in notepad or in some
places.
Now i have a plan to load Sql server again
but i want my old procedures before loading
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Where actually SQL Server stores these procedures?
I searched in my system with my procedure name but it
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In my case there is no chance of recovering my old SQL Server
i have load again SQL Server.
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Hi all:
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Hi Guys,
Ive accidently gone and deleted a snapshot agent off a working publication (tables distribution.dbo.mssnapshot_agents, msdb.dbo.sysjobs etc).
Is there a workaround to create a new snapshot agent for the publication without having to break or recreate the publication?
I have tried adding a snapshot and only to fail, can anyone help? thanks a million
---*** Tried adding a snapshot agent ***---
use publishing_database
go
-- Add snapshot job
exec sp_addpublication_snapshot @publication = N'publication_name',
@frequency_type = 4,
@frequency_interval = 1,
@frequency_relative_interval = 1,
@frequency_recurrence_factor = 0,
@frequency_subday = 8,
@frequency_subday_interval = 1,
@active_start_date = 20040101,
@active_end_date = 20040101,
@active_start_time_of_day = 0,
@active_end_time_of_day = 235959
GO
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Server: Msg 14101, Level 11, State 1, Procedure sp_MSaddpub_snapshot, Line 73
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answers on a postcard.
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