Hello,
I am using EM to administer SQL 6.5 SP5a and have a few dBs that do not show backup history by expanding the backup device. The server is regestered as SA and MSDB does contain the the correct data in the sysbackuphistory table. MSDB DBCCs OK and other dBs show history. I manage multiple SQL 6.5 servers but this is the first time I've seen this and can find no info in the various KBs or NGs..
Anyone have any clues?
Thanks,
Jack
hi, I usually back up the database to a file within the sql server box. then use a tape backup to back up the whole directory of the sql server in the d: drive.
Is this right way to do or there is a better way ?
Ahmed
I have taken backups and the backup devices are stored in C: drive and now i want them to be moved onto the other drive.So how can i do it without creating new devices and scheduling them again.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kris
i need to initialise the backup devices as the the backup files have grown so big thats its occupy hard drive space , each device is for @ day for all databse we use , what do i do
thanks
safac
Hi guys
I am relatively new to SQL Server admin and I have been handed a task of creating backup devices for a particular SQL Server which has 204 databases.
Rather than go through and create Full, Incramental and Transaction Log backup devices for each database is ther anyway of doing the following
Create a script to go through and for each database name in 'sysdatabases'
create a folder e.g sqldataackup\%databasename%
and within each folder create a backup device called
%databasename%_full
%databasename%_inc
%databasename%_log
Also all these databases are running in 'Simple' recovery mode so obviously I need to change this to 'Full' to enable incramental and log backups - is this possible using the same script.
Hope someone can help as the thought of doing all of this individually for each database scares me silly!!! :)
Thanks in advance for any help
Hanley
Hi,
I am using EMS SQL Manager for SQL Server (www.sqlmanager.net). I am trying to learn how to do backups of my database.
I am up to this step -> http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/mssql/manager/documentation/hs21640.html
I don't think I actually understand what a device is, how it's created, where it resides, etc. I would like to backup my remote datasource to my local computer's harddrive.
Can someone please explain how this 'device' works and how I should set up?
Thank you so much for any help :-)
jo
So I have two steps in my job that check conditions and call RAISERROR to gracefully complete the job if those conditions are met (meaning I only want the final step to run in a specific situation). Works great, except for some reason my messages are not making it into the log. It is appending the SQLSTATE, and a default error instead of anything that I'm putting into RAISERROR.
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I am trying to backup a VLDB (800+gig) to multiple devices. I am using 4 disk drives. Assuming all devices have the same performance, should the 4 devices fill equally? (IE 200gig per drive) If so, what would might happen if one of the 4 drives only has 100 gig free with the other 3 having 300 gig free each?
Thanks for the help--
Jeff
Hi there,I need to take a backup with the following scanerio in mind:At T1 I take the FULL BACK UP of the database called BACK_1_FULL.BACK inc:Then at T2 I would like to take only the differential BACKUP of theTransaction log called BACK_1_TRANSLOG.BACK and at T3 I would like totakeonly the differential BACKUP of the Transaction log calledBACK_2_TRANSLOG.BACK. At T4 my system fails and I need to bring thedatabaseto a point where my T3 state is in. I tried taking the backups in DEVICEbutI always get an error from SQL Server Enterprise manager such asVolume on Device 'Device2' is not part of a family media set. BACKUPWITH NOFORMAT can be used to form a new media set. BACKUP LOG is terminatingabnormally.If someone can give suggestions on how to backup and restore in thissituation it will be really helpful.ThanksJohn*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi, I've to restore a bk into a new DB, because the old one has a lot of devices created on different places and phisical disks.
Im not sure to do that, cause Ive heard some problems with this action.
The old Db has 10 devices of data and 10 devices of log, and I want to create only one device of data (sum of all the data devices) and only one device of log (sum of all log devices)
Is it possible or not?
Tnx a lot!
I have a database size of 9.8TB and I backup it to 30 backup devices. Each one has 110GB after backup compression.I tried to restore these files to standby server via 100MbE network but it always failed. My colleague told me this never happen before and I said yes because I have done this before a lot of times when backup devices are significantly smaller.He said the only way is to copy backup files locally and restore locally. But I am trying another method, I create more: 64(maximum) backup devices and try to restore via network again.SQL server version is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP1)
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RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
I am getting an error, "Set property Devices to accomplish this action." when doing a backup with SQL Server 2005 Express when I try to do a full (or Differential) backup through the SQL Server Management Studio. I'm using the backup defaults in the GUI and was able to back up the database a couple of days ago without any problem. Today (second time) it just comes up with this error and I have been able to find anything that talks about what it might be.
I tired to look at the script by using the "Script action to new query, file, clipboard, etc." but it fails before it creates the script in any destination. I've rebooted the server and that didn't help.
I found one similar post on this forum but it had no resolution. Any direction on this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Steve
I'm trying to restore a database using SSMS GUI. In "Select backup devices" window if I click the Add button there the window and the whole process hangs like it will never work.
I tried to clear backup history, but that didn't solve it.
I tried with a couple of other databases, but same thing. It was working fine!
How do we know the list of all the backups that are present in a particualr backup device like file# and time of backup taken etc for the purose of restore?
When I run :
RESTORE HEADERONLY FROM BackupDeviceName
it doesn't give that info. Can anyone tell me the exact command to list all the files of a backup device so that I can restore the right one??
Thanks.
Shalini.
Hi gurus,May be my question is funny to all of you guys but I don't know why wehave to keep the backup and recovery history of databases in msdb. Itry to read BOL & other documents but no clue.Thanks a bunch
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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?
Hi,
I drag the database Backup Task from the toolbox and double-click on it, it shows this error:
Cannot show the editor for this task.
Additional information
Method not found: 'Void Microsoft.SQLServer.Management.DatabaseMaintenance.TaskUIUtils..ctor()'.
(Microsoft.SQLServer.MaintenancePlanTasksUI)
What is the prob with this?
cherriesh
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
I am backing up a database as follows:
backup database PPLicense to disk = 'D:License.bak'
I have run this 5 times. If I know run this command:
restore headeronly from disk = 'D:License.bak'
I can see 5 entries returned this all looks good. In SQL Management studio I try and restore this database by selecting the file. The Restore Database dialog only shows the last backup set position i.e. position 5 and now the 4 before it. Why is this not showing the 4 previous backups?
I am using SQL Server 2012 SP 2 (Version 11.0.3460).
Does anyone out there use a NAS device to place there database and corresponding images on?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI know that you need to create a device in 6.5 to do backups, but in 7.0, it seems to take care of this for you. However, there is still a device folder in the Management folder of version 7.0's console tree. Why would it be better to back up to devices, rather than anywhere else on the hard drive. Is there any way to easily schedule the deletion of backups on these devices? I know that with 7.0's Maintenance plans, you can schedule old backups to be deleted. But how do you do that for devices?
joe
How do I create more than 10 devices in sql server 4.2?
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I just tried to make a typed resultset from a SSCE v3.5 database, and recieved this message from Visual Studio:
"Typed ResultSets cannot be generated for tables on Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 databases present on devices."
On the device, speed and low memory consumption is important. So it seems to me that this should be present ONLY on devices, because on the desktop we can just use the DataSet generator and not care about the overhead.
Anyway, ripped from what would have been a nice feature, the alternatives that comes to mind are:
1. Making my own resultset generator
2. Use typed DataSets
3. Derive from SqlCeResultSet and store the Field names in it, to build my own typed resultset class.
Any suggestions on what to do?
I asked about this a few mos ago over in the CF forum, but I'm hoping there's a better solution someone (Erik?) knows about here.
Is there a "standard" deploy script for SQL Server CE on devices? There doesn't even seem to be one in the d/l from Microsoft. During development, Visual Studio handles the installation of SQL Server CE on the device but deploying it on a device that isn't partnered to a dev box seems to be a matter of "just copy the cab file over".
While I'm willing to do that if I have to, it raises some other questions. How do I know if it's already there? How do I know if what's there is a newer version or not (and if it is, how do I abort this step)? How do I make sure some other application hasn't installed it already? Do I really even need to worry this?
I can just have my installer tell ActiveSync to put it on the device, but without knowing the above I'm kind of nervous about it.
Hi All,,
I want to get a list of backup devices for a selected database
ex :
Northwind Database i need to get the list of back devices for this db
any one know how the query could be written
best regards
Wafi Mohtaseb
Hello
Does anyone have experience/advice with large databases (5-10 Gig)? If so, I was wondering about
performance/other benefits of spanning a large database across multiple devices (different disks). Would anyone
vote for or against doing this?
Suggestions...
Thanks
Tim
Hi all
I have a raid 5 NT server 4.0 with SQL 6.5 running.
I perform backups on tranlogs every hour and db`s every night.
I also have another 16G Nt server not raid 5.
Can someone tell me if it is possible to mirror a device or a database
into the regular 16G NT server from raid 5 server?
HOW???
HOw about database mirroring??
And also whats the best solution when it comes to mirrorring in NT server?
Hello All,
I want to know if it's possible for a database on multiple devices to put specific tables on specific devices?? and if this is possible how to do it??
Thanks for help
Mohamed hani
Hi all,
Can somebody tell me how to display reports created in SSRS 2005 in PDA/mobile devices? How to connect to the PDA device?
I am new to SS7. We are planning to rearrange our system databases so that the logs are on one drive
and the data files are on a different drive. I found a really good white paper on this but just want to
verify that there is not a problem with doing this. In sybase there were some restrictions on doing this.
Any info you have would be appreciated.
Is there a way to shrink database devices in SQL Server 6.5 Other than dropping and restoring?
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