How To Compress Backup File
Jul 15, 2015Any easy way to compress backup file. I use SQL Server 2008 R2
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SQL 2012 :: Compress Existing Backup File?
Jan 22, 2015I have a SQL 2012 enterprise server, and I'm using Commvault as my backups. So commvault can restore a .bak file to my server, but it cannot use sql compression on the file apparently. So what would be a 150GB .bak backup file is now 600GB. I have to manually upload these files to an auditing firm on an sftp server and the transfer times are now huge.
Is there a way to use something in sql to compress this already existing .bak file down?
SQL Server 2008 :: Easy Way To Compress Backup File?
Jul 15, 2015easy way to compress backup file. I use SQL Server 2008 R2
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Feb 27, 2007Currently we use a SQL maintenance plan to do a full backup of all our databases daily (about 40 databases on our production server). As you can imagine, this eats up disk space quickly so currently we manually zip the backup files and/or move them to an archive drive. I considered writing an application to walk through the backup folder structure and zip any .bak file it finds, but I know there are some third party tools out there that will backup/restore a MS SQL database.
I was wondering if any of these also zip the backups once they are created. Any recommendations or suggestions are welcome.
SQL 2008 Backup Split/compress/speed
Apr 18, 2008
Is there any improvments in SQL 2008 backup methods such as spliting backup files in manageable size(s), compress the backups and/or improving the speed of backup?
Though there are "commercial" tools available, it would be nicer if Microsoft SQL team can incorporate some core needed features in these areas for Small/Medium size businesses.
This is not a question but a suggesstion.
Thanks
Backup Failed: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Backup And File Manipulation... Must Be Serialized
Jul 11, 2007Using SQL Server 2005 Server Management Studio, I attempted to back up a database, and received this error:
Backup failed: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Backup and file manipulation operations (such as ALTER DATABASE ADD FILE) on a database must be serialized. Reissue the satement after the current backup or file manipulation is completed (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
Program location:
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Backup.SqlBackup(Server srv)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlManagerUI.BackupPropOptions.OnRunNow(Object sender)
Backup Options were set to:
Back up to the existing media set
Overwrite all existing backup sets
I am fairly new to SQL 2005. Can someone help me get past this issue? What other information do I need to provide?
Difference Between Partial Backup (SQL 2005) And File Group Backup
Dec 5, 2006What is the difference between "Files aned File Groups" backup and Partial Backup?
Looks like both are same.. Please comment.
Compress Database....
Feb 12, 2006I work with MSDE, now the dimensions are of 2 GB....I have deleted many pages, is possible to compress the database?
Thanks in advanced
Compress Table
Aug 23, 2007i have a table that is often deleted from and added to.
i noticed that it gets realy slow -
is there a way to compress a table? (there must be even in access you can compact and repair)
is there sql code that I can call from my code after doing a lot of deleting to speak this up.
Please advise.
DB Engine :: Compressed Backup While Restoring Backup File
Sep 8, 2015I got full backup on daily schedule its taking more space on Drive because each file has more than 25GB.I am using SLQ server 2008R2 so I'm looking to take the backup with compression instead of uncompressed Backup. What are the impacts of compressed backup. Is there any problems with compressed backup while restoring the backup file.
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Apr 1, 2008I should restore a SQL Server 2005 Database from backup. The backup contains three files, named user.bak0, user.bak1 and user.bak2.
How is the syntax of the restore filelistonly and the restore database ... ?
I usualy write
restore filelistonly from disk = 'path and filenam.bak'
restore database. zy
from disk = 'path and filename.bak'
with replace,
move.....
move....
This works but I cannot use it with a splitted backup file. The files are much too big to put together to one file.
Thanks in advance for any help.
How To Compress Text Before Storing In DB?
Feb 15, 2005I was planning on running a service where thousands of text messages are stored. Obviously I'd want to make the most of my DB space, and was wondering if there's some way for SQL to compress text down to the smallest space possible. If not, is there some kind of ASP component I could download to do this? Failing that, I could always write a simple one, which takes the most common letter combinations, and shortens them down to a single character.
Any advice?
How To Compress Data At Restore Time
Aug 17, 2015Is it possible to compress the data at restore time?.
Backup is coming from a not compressed database.
The backup file is compressed.
Compress Trasaction Logs (LOG SHIPPING )
Jan 29, 2008
hi
If wanted to set up Logshipping between two sqlserver 2005 enterprise edition servers.The transaction log backup is being taken every 2 hours and with approx size of 1GB - 1.5 GB.
Now before the copy job runs,i want to compress the tlog file on primary server,copy it to secondary server and uncompress it on secondary and then apply transaction logs to secondary server.I need the procedure how to do it.Please help out.
Thx in advance
Regards
Arvind
SQL Server 2012 :: Compress Table Timelines
Jul 8, 2014Here is data I am working with:
CREATE TABLE HISTORY(CUSTOMER VARCHAR(10), PLANNBR VARCHAR(10), SUBPLAN VARCHAR(3),
STARTDATE DATETIME, ENDDATE DATETIME, HISTORYMONTH VARCHAR(6))
INSERT INTO HISTORY(CUSTOMER, PLANNBR, SUBPLAN, STARTDATE, ENDDATE) VALUES('9111111', 'H1111LAC', '006', '2014-01-01', '2014-05-31', '201401')
INSERT INTO HISTORY(CUSTOMER, PLANNBR, SUBPLAN, STARTDATE, ENDDATE) VALUES('9111111','H1111LAC', '006', '2014-01-01', '2014-05-31', '201402')
[code]...
I need to compress these segments into records which will look like this. The HistoryMonth column is not used to make the final determination of records to keep.
CUSTOMERPLANNBRSUBPLANSTARTDATEENDDATE
9111111H1111LAC0062014-01-012014-05-31
9111111H1111OC0102014-06-012999-12-31
9111112H1111LAC0062014-01-012014-05-31
9111112H1111LAC0182014-06-012999-12-31
9111113H1111LAC0062014-01-012999-12-31
9111114H1111LAC0062014-01-012014-02-28
9111114H1111LAC0062014-04-012999-12-31
Customer 9111111 shows a change in both PlanNbr and SubPlan 2014-06-01 Need to show both records
Customer 9111112 shows a change in SubPlan 2014-06-01 - Need to show both records
Customer 9111113 shows no change in PlanNbr or SubPlan - Need to show 1 record
Customer 9111114 show a break between and enddate and next start > 1 day - need to show both records
Compress/Zip Reporting Services Export Options
Dec 4, 2006Hey everyone,
I have an issue where i am sending out files with 30,000+ lines and they are reaching the 11mb, 12mb in size.
This is becoming and issue for us, as we are only allowed to email up to 10mb in size.
I have tried reducing all spaces in the data, removing any graphics etc from the report , but still the excel file is over 11mb. One thing i did find was that, if i export it to excel, then open the file and save as a different file name the file size drops 50% !!
I was wondering if anyone has been able to zip/compress the exported file before it gets emailed?
It would be a great feature for MS to include in the next service pack.. Take advantage of the built in Zip support in Windows..
Look forward to hearing any suggestions that the community may have,
Thanks
Scotty
Integration Services :: Compress Multiple BAK Files To ZIP?
Oct 26, 20151. SQL 2008 R2
2. Maintenance Plan -
a. Daily, Weekly, Monthly schedule
b. Full Back Up - All Database, To Disk, for every database and Disk:DirectorySubDirectory*.bak Compress backup
3. SQL Agent Job
a. Runs the Sub_Plan's at scheduled time I've allocated for each Maintenance Plan.
4. These creates Multiple .bak for all database's that list in the directory.
How can I zip them into a compressed Directory.
SQL 2012 :: Compress Data Transfer During Synchronization Between Availability Group Nodes?
Apr 13, 2015I got this situation where my network admin observerd that there is a high network utilization between 2 nodes in our AG (the primary node & the DR site, 2 separate locations of course); then he advised to compress the data transfer between those 2 nodes as the previous DBA already did that before!
Ok, I have no clue about this, so decided to google it, got nothing. My backup is already compressed through some third party app (just in case if that matters to the subject).
DB Engine :: How To Restore From Current LDF Log File And Old BAK Backup File
Jun 11, 2015My customer got a total hard drive failure.After sending it to drive recovery specialist we were able to recover the LDF log file (MyDB_0.LDF).But the MDF file was completely destroyed (MyDB.MDF).They have a good full backup from a month ago.
1) Installed SQL Server 2012 on a new PC
2) Created a new database of same name (MyDB) - with same MDF and LDF file names as original
3) Took the new database offline
4) deleted the MDF and LDF files of the new database
5) put "MyDB_0.LDF" in the place of the LDF file I just deleted
6) put the database back on-line
7) after hitting F5 to refresh databases - it shows "MyDB (Recovery Pending)"
8) tried to do Tail Log Backup with this command
BACKUP LOG [MyDB] TO DISK = N'C:BACKUPMyDB_TailLog.bak'
WITH NO_TRUNCATE
And I get this error...
Msg 3447, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
Could not activate or scan all of the log files for database 'MyDB'.
The sad thing is I know we can get this data back using ApexSQL-Log. I can see all the transactions since the last full backup in this program - so the log file is not damaged. But my client doesn't want to pay the $2000 fee for this software.There has to be a way to restore this data, without having to purchase a third party tool.
DB Engine :: Extension FILE Among Backup File
May 8, 2015I checked quickly one network and I ran into the folders; I found out the folder MSSQL backup, nothing strange so far. Within that folder, anyway, I found out several backup and one very huge file (datawarehouse) with extension FILE. I am wondering what can be? I got datawarehouse mdf of course and datawarehouse log but what is that huge file (1 TB)?
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Jul 12, 2006Hi,
I tried to backup the master key by the following syntax :
OPEN MASTER KEY DECRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'mypassword'
BACKUP MASTER KEY TO FILE = 'c: empmaster' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'mypassword'
but it failed and i got the following message:
Cannot write into file 'c: empmaster'. Verify that you have write permissions, that the file path is valid, and that the file does not already exist.
NB: I am using the "sa" user to execute this command.
I know that we have a security permission issue , but where and how ?
Regards,
Tarek Ghazali
SQL Server MVP
Can I Backup From .mdf Or .ldf File?
Nov 8, 2001Hi there,
After a bad server crash, the only remnant we have of our SQL server database are the .mdf and .ldf files in the MSSQL7/Data folder. Can we restore this database from either of these files and if so, what is the procedure? Sorry but I'm an SQL server newbie.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
Getting SP From DB Backup File
Nov 13, 2007Hi,
I dropped a SPROC, and was in the process of reacreating it when I lost power. Now I don't have the SPROC except for in an old backup file.
Is there anyway to get this without restoring the DB ? If not, can I easily restore to a different DB name and then delete it? My backups are on my live server and I don't want to overwrite my current DB with my backup :)
thanks for any suggestions!!
mike123
Help Me Plz About Backup .mdf File With C#
Mar 28, 2008I rigth click my project , i choose add -> new item -> sql database
and i write
SqlConnection cc = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=.SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|DataData.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True");
when i code
cmd.CommandText = "Backup database Data to disk = 'C:\123.bak'";
i recieve Error
Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database 'Data'. No entry found with that name. Make sure that the name is entered correctly.
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
help me to solve this problem please!!!
Thanks.
SQL Backup File Is HUGE!!!
Sep 25, 2004One of my databases is approxiamtely 1.5 GB's but when I run a backup the backup file explodes to 38GB's.
What is the proper usage of Shrink Database, is this safe or is there another method to reduce the size?
Backup Log File Fail
Aug 23, 2001My database's log file is full. i want to backup it .
First i create a backup device named aa.
Than i use Enterprise to backup trasaction log.
But it popup an error messagebox.
The title is "Microsoft SQL-DMO(ODBC SQL state:42000)
The content is "write on 'aa' failed,status=112. See the SQL error log for more details.Backup or Restore operation terminating abnormally.
What's the matter ?
Huge Backup File
May 12, 2000I am using SQL Server 7 and have about 5 databases. One of them has a data file of about 10 Meg, and most of the others are larger. I do a nightly backup to both a local and mapped drive. On both, the size of the backup file for this database is more than 500 Meg, but the rest appear to be an appropriate size. Does anyone know why this would be happening? The database works fine, it does not get a lot of insert/delete activity and I run DBCC every weekend. If anyone has any ideas I would sure like to hear from them.
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Dec 19, 2000Hi,
How can we create a new D/B from a D/B Backup file (DataBase.Bak).
Thanks,
Princy
Creating A New D/B From A Backup File.
Oct 16, 2000Hi,
I am new to SqlServer (I am using 7.0) and I have just recieved a database.bak file from one of our clients and I want to create a new D/B from this back up file ,I have already installed the MS SqlServer. Can you tell me how to do this.
Thanks,
Princy
DB Backup File Purge
Apr 25, 2002Anyone have anything hints on getting the option of DELBKUP to work. I have a maintenance job that backs up the database. Also set to delete backups older than 1 day. This doesn't seem to be working.
Any thoughts.
Thanking you in advance.
Backup File Location & Name
Jul 11, 2002Is the name of the most recent backup file for each database stored anywhere in SQL2K? I want execute a SQA job periodically that takes the BAK from database A and restores it over database B (using the T-SQL RESTORE DATABASE procedure), but I need to know the exact name of the .BAK file; i.e. I need to know the yyyymmddhhmm value at the end of that file.
TIA,
Al
Finding Last Backup File Name
Jul 22, 2002Is the name of the last backup file recorded anywhere in SQL2K? I do backups every 2 hours, and want to restore backups from database A to database B once a day using the latest backup. Unfortunately the backup files don't have the time the backup started (e.g. 1600), but have the time they ended (I presume); e.g. 1604.
I want to automate the process; any suggestions on how to find the name of the last database file?
TIA,
Al
File Group Backup
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