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 cleaning database backup history as "Delete history if 4 months old" for backup file, and "Delete history if 1 week old" for Log file back.
lets say, I have disaster after 3 months, and I recover database with data and log backup files. Will I be able to recover with 3 month old backup file with just 1 week Log file backup. As I am keeing my Log backups only for 1 week.
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?
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'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
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.
"
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.
Regarding 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?
I am trying to set up a process where a differential backup is taken daily and applied to another DB. For some reason I cannot get the diff backup to restore. The full DB backup restored fine.
Server: Msg 3136, Level 16, State 1, Line 4 Cannot apply the differential backup on device 'diff' to database 'test'. Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 4 Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally.
hey guyz.. i got this code.. its running... but i am not able to find the file that has been backed up by the program.. pls help.. if there is anything wrong with the codes pls help me
this code is for creating backups
Dim paramsBackup As String = " -Usa -P -q " & Chr(34) & "Backup database test to disk ='c: est.bak'" & Chr(34) & " -n "
Try Process.Start("c:program filesmicrosoft sql server80 oolsinnosql.exe", paramsBackup) MsgBox("Backuped") Catch ex As Exception MessageBox.Show(ex.Message) End Try
this code is for restoring
Dim paramsRestore As String = " -Usa -P -q " & Chr(34) & "restore database test from disk ='c: est.bak'" & Chr(34) & " -n " Try Process.Start("c:program filesmicrosoft sql server80 oolsinnosql.exe", paramsRestore) MsgBox("Restored") Catch ex As Exception MessageBox.Show(ex.Message) End Try
SQL Server's Books On-line seems to hint that this can be done. Does anyone have any info or practical application of this? Can someone confirm that this is possible please.
Until yesterday I had a server running SQL Server 2008 R2 - with all the SQL Server DB files on an attached disk array.
The server died - so I attached the disk array to a new server - and all the DB data files are visible there.
I installed SQL Server 2014 on the new server and am trying to work out how to point it at the existing database files.
I also have backups of the DB's - but they will take ages to copy over and restore - so it would be much easier to just use the db files. Should I restore the master db first (easy as its small)?
I am working on a task. Currently we are taking a database backup and keeping that backups in a folder. The backups doesn't have time stamp on it. My task is need to get the latest backup and copy that backups into some other server and then restore the database from there.I am planning to create SSIS package.Do we need script task for this task.How to get the .bak with latest create or moidified date. For now we doesn't have timestamp so need to go based on modified date?
I'm working on a restore procedure for the case where all MDF filesare missing, but the LDF files are all intact. A full backup is doneevery 24 hours, and a log backup is done every 3 hours. Afterrestoring the last full + log backups, is it at all possible to usethe LDF files to recover data from that point up to a newer point intime?I've found a post which explains how to do this on SQL Server 2000<http://groups.google.com/group/comp...s.ms-sqlserver/browse_thread/thread/3ef5c7cbc0a83334/f3b0c70811d35ed7>, but step 4fails with the following error message:BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current databasebackup.
We have a set of databases some are fully read-only others have read-only file groups, is there any way to restore backups of these taken on an MSDE 2000 to an SQL Express 2005 instance?
When doing the inplace upgrade we change these to read-write before the upgrade and set them back after the upgrade.
These databases are used in the field by customers althought the controlled upgrade requires a backup before (and blocks if it fails) and tries a backup after if the post upgrade backup fails (due to disk space) we might need to recover from this odd situation.
The only solution I have is install MSDE some place restore to this then do the controlled upgrade again, any other ideas?
Hello, I am taking the error message which is in the below side,while restoring a database.(I am using sql server 2005) The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing 'db1' database. (db1 is the database name.) Can you help me?
Hi, I have one backup file of one database, I want to restore the database to server using that backup file. But when I tried to restore the database using that backup file, the query executed successfully, but in management studio at the database it is showing the message like 'Restoring the database'. The database i am trying to restore is about 2.71gb memory. I executed the query 4hrs back but still it is showing same message that it is getting restored. Why it is showing like this. Please help me to solve this problem. The query i used to restore the database is - 'RESTORE DATABASE [Everydayonline] FROM DISK = N'D:BOOKSEverydayBackUp' WITH NORECOVERY, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10, MOVE 'ASPNETDB_983ed943e1fe49e3ae7fa189b823b238_DAT' TO 'D:SQLEverydayOnline.mdf', MOVE 'ASPNETDB_TMP_log' TO 'D:SQLEverydayOnline_log.ldf' GO'
I did the full backup of .7 TB database about 2 weeks ago and did full restore with norecovery mode and then i did differential backup of about 100 gb and tried to restore but it is showing following error : System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: This differential backup cannot be restored because the database has not been restored to the correct earlier state. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
While restoring the files are different than original database files
I have a phisical device called 'respaldo.bak' inside this file there are three backups of three different databases, The first one is database called 'innovasoft' the second one is 'modelo_de_datos' and the last one is 'Inversiones'.
If I perform a restore of the first one there is no problem, but, when i try to restore the second o third database i get the following error:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Restore failed for Server 'COMPUTO'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.00&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates.FailedOperationExceptionText&EvtID=Restore+Server&LinkId=20476 ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo) ------------------------------ El archivo lógico 'INNOVASOFT_Datos' no es parte de la base de datos 'PROBANDO'. Use RESTORE FILELISTONLY para enumerar los nombres de los archivos lógicos. Fin anómalo de RESTORE DATABASE. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3234) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00.1399&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=3234&LinkId=20476 ------------------------------ BUTTONS: OK ------------------------------
I have to say that i want to restore the database with a different name that's why in the error says 'PROBANDO' , i'm really concern about this problem because it means that i have no backups for my data. I used to use this procedure on sql server 2000 every single day without problems, but on sql server 2005 it doesn't work properly.
When attempting to restore a database, I get the following error:
'Cannot open backup device, (filename).bak, Operating system error 5, access is denied.'
I get similar errors when attempting to attach the database file, it shows up in the Mngt. Tool as 'read only'.
This error does not occur when restoring the same .bak file to other pc's. On the problem pc, we have completely uninstalled and reinstalled Sql Express and Mngt. Tool Express. It occurs whether logged in as full administrator or other user.
I was just restoring one database and creating another concurrently on the same server. The restore took longer than the create due to the respective sizes. After the create had finished (done in Query Analyzer) I went back to the restore to see how it was getting on (running in Enterprise Manager). There was an error (which I didn't record exactly - DOH!) along the lines of "could not obtain a lock on the model database, restore terminating abnormally." I guess the create had model locked while it was creating the default objects, but what was a *restore* doing needing the model database anyway?
I m a student and i m doing a project on Datamining. I have to mine data of a company. the issue is that the company uses Microsoft SQL server as there DBMS. they backed up there data and gave it to me with schema (schema is separate and data backup is a backup generated through the backup option in SQL server Enterprise Manager). Now i created tables through query analyzer (i think) and then through enterprise manager i tried to restore that backup on my personal pc and i get an error . the image is attached see the image for the error http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/kaboomagic/error.jpg
Hi experts! I am using SQL Server 2005. while restoring a database. I got following error:
" An exception occured while executing a Transct-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo) Additional Information: Too many backup devices specified for backup or restore; only 64 are allowed. RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error:3205 ) "
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.
I did a full backup of a db from one server(Express2005) and trying to restore it to a different instance of SQL2005 on the same development machine. (Also had some fulltext columns if that means anything)
Many failures but finally got it to report all was successful except the icon in Object Explorer shows (Restoring...) with no indication of any real activity going on. It's a tiny database with hardly any data in it.
Just not sure what the heck is going on there. It also won't let me into the database until this the (Restoring...) goes away.
I have 2 databases: 1 from production and 1 from development. None of the developers kept a changelog so i need to know what has changed (or what is different between the 2).
Are there any tools/utilties that can diff 2 sql server databases. I know the DB Pro Edition of VSTS can do it, but its hard to justify a jump from my $800 copy of VS2005 Pro to a $5k-6k version of VS just to get database diff. The tablediff looks promising but I need it to do SPROCS and SFUNCS too. Any helps or recommendations would be appreciated.
I got a quick question. My database size has reached the limit of the drive, one option is to add a new database device on a different drive, then expand in across 2 drives. Anything I have to concern for a database on 2 database device on 2 logical drives (recoverability or ...?) compared to maybe another option:
reformat the whole disk and allocated more space to the original drive and recover (since in my case, all disk space have been formated) from backup....
Hello, My master database (MS SQL 2005) has simple recovery model, however, when performing diff backup of "all databases", I am getting the following error:
Executing the query "BACKUP DATABASE [master] TO DISK = N'X:\Database Backups\diff backups\master\master_backup_200803251235.bak' WITH DIFFERENTIAL , NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'master_backup_20080325123514', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10 " failed with the following error: "You can only perform a full backup of the master database. Use BACKUP DATABASE to back up the entire master database. BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
If I choose to back up only "All user databases", then it performs just fine. Why I cannot run diff backup of master?
