I am amazed to see this morning that log file consuming whole disk space even though the database is in simple recovery mode.
What could be the reasons to fill in the space even in simple recovery mode??
Hi,
On SQL 2000, if I have a large transaction log for my database and I manage to fill it with a single large transaction but it is not set to autogrow, what happens?
I have several databases that perform daily backups. Ever since I installed SP2, the backup jobs are failing. The logs state that it's because the database recovery mode cannot be SIMPLE, but need to be either FULL or Bulk-Logged.
Can anyone tell me if this is true, and that I do have to change my recovery mode?
Here's the error:
NEW COMPONENT OUTPUT
Microsoft(R) Server Maintenance Utility (Unicode) Version 9.0.3042
Report was generated on "ICIS-SQL-SERVER".
Maintenance Plan: DB Backup
Duration: 00:08:05
Status: Warning: One or more tasks failed..
Details:
Back Up Database (Transaction Log) (ICIS-SQL-SERVER)
Backup Database on Target server connection
Databases that have a compatibility level of 70 (SQL Server version 7.0) will be skipped.
Databases: All user databases
Type: Transaction Log
Append existing
Task start: 2007-03-10T05:08:09.
Task end: 2007-03-10T05:08:09.
Failed:(-1073548784) Executing the query "BACKUP LOG [hl7 db_SamirTesting] TO DISK = N'D:\mssql\backup\hl7 db_SamirTesting\hl7 db_SamirTesting_backup_200703100508.trn' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'hl7 db_SamirTesting_backup_20070310050809', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
" failed with the following error: "The statement BACKUP LOG is not allowed while the recovery model is SIMPLE. Use BACKUP DATABASE or change the recovery model using ALTER DATABASE.
BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
Command:BACKUP LOG [hl7 db_SamirTesting] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackuphl7 db_SamirTestinghl7 db_SamirTesting_backup_200703100508.trn'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''hl7 db_SamirTesting_backup_20070310050809'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
BACKUP LOG [dg_efilm_153] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackupdg_efilm_153dg_efilm_153_backup_200703100508.trn'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''dg_efilm_153_backup_20070310050809'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
BACKUP LOG [hl7 db] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackuphl7 dbhl7 db_backup_200703100508.trn'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''hl7 db_backup_20070310050809'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
Back Up Database (Transaction Log) (ICIS-SQL-SERVER)
Backup Database on Target server connection
Databases that have a compatibility level of 70 (SQL Server version 7.0) will be skipped.
Databases: All user databases
Type: Transaction Log
Append existing
Task start: 2007-03-10T05:08:09.
Task end: 2007-03-10T05:08:09.
Failed:(-1073548784) Executing the query "BACKUP LOG [dg_efilm_153] TO DISK = N'D:\mssql\backup\dg_efilm_153\dg_efilm_153_backup_200703100508.trn' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'dg_efilm_153_backup_20070310050809', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
" failed with the following error: "The statement BACKUP LOG is not allowed while the recovery model is SIMPLE. Use BACKUP DATABASE or change the recovery model using ALTER DATABASE.
BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
Command:BACKUP LOG [hl7 db_SamirTesting] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackuphl7 db_SamirTestinghl7 db_SamirTesting_backup_200703100508.trn'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''hl7 db_SamirTesting_backup_20070310050809'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
BACKUP LOG [dg_efilm_153] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackupdg_efilm_153dg_efilm_153_backup_200703100508.trn'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''dg_efilm_153_backup_20070310050809'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
BACKUP LOG [hl7 db] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackuphl7 dbhl7 db_backup_200703100508.trn'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''hl7 db_backup_20070310050809'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
Back Up Database (Transaction Log) (ICIS-SQL-SERVER)
Backup Database on Target server connection
Databases that have a compatibility level of 70 (SQL Server version 7.0) will be skipped.
Databases: All user databases
Type: Transaction Log
Append existing
Task start: 2007-03-10T05:08:09.
Task end: 2007-03-10T05:08:09.
Failed:(-1073548784) Executing the query "BACKUP LOG [hl7 db] TO DISK = N'D:\mssql\backup\hl7 db\hl7 db_backup_200703100508.trn' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'hl7 db_backup_20070310050809', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
" failed with the following error: "The statement BACKUP LOG is not allowed while the recovery model is SIMPLE. Use BACKUP DATABASE or change the recovery model using ALTER DATABASE.
BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
Command:BACKUP LOG [hl7 db_SamirTesting] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackuphl7 db_SamirTestinghl7 db_SamirTesting_backup_200703100508.trn'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''hl7 db_SamirTesting_backup_20070310050809'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
BACKUP LOG [dg_efilm_153] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackupdg_efilm_153dg_efilm_153_backup_200703100508.trn'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''dg_efilm_153_backup_20070310050809'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
BACKUP LOG [hl7 db] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackuphl7 dbhl7 db_backup_200703100508.trn'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''hl7 db_backup_20070310050809'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
Back Up Database (Transaction Log) (ICIS-SQL-SERVER)
Backup Database on Target server connection
Databases that have a compatibility level of 70 (SQL Server version 7.0) will be skipped.
Databases: All user databases
Type: Transaction Log
Append existing
Task start: 2007-03-10T05:08:08.
Task end: 2007-03-10T05:08:09.
Failed:(0) Database 'hl7 db_SamirTesting' will not be backed up because it does not have its recovery model set to Full or BulkLogged.
Back Up Database (Transaction Log) (ICIS-SQL-SERVER)
Backup Database on Target server connection
Databases that have a compatibility level of 70 (SQL Server version 7.0) will be skipped.
Databases: All user databases
Type: Transaction Log
Append existing
Task start: 2007-03-10T05:08:08.
Task end: 2007-03-10T05:08:09.
Failed:(0) Database 'dg_efilm_153' will not be backed up because it does not have its recovery model set to Full or BulkLogged.
Back Up Database (Transaction Log) (ICIS-SQL-SERVER)
Backup Database on Target server connection
Databases that have a compatibility level of 70 (SQL Server version 7.0) will be skipped.
Databases: All user databases
Type: Transaction Log
Append existing
Task start: 2007-03-10T05:08:08.
Task end: 2007-03-10T05:08:09.
Failed:(0) Database 'hl7 db' will not be backed up because it does not have its recovery model set to Full or BulkLogged.
Back Up Database (Full) (ICIS-SQL-SERVER)
Backup Database on Target server connection
Databases that have a compatibility level of 70 (SQL Server version 7.0) will be skipped.
Databases: All databases
Type: Full
Append existing
Task start: 2007-03-10T05:00:06.
Task end: 2007-03-10T05:08:08.
Success
Command:EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N''D:mssqlackupmaster''
GO
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N''D:mssqlackupmodel''
GO
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N''D:mssqlackupmsdb''
GO
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N''D:mssqlackuphl7 db_SamirTesting''
GO
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N''D:mssqlackupdg_efilm_153''
GO
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N''D:mssqlackuphl7 db''
GO
BACKUP DATABASE [master] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackupmastermaster_backup_200703100500.bak'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''master_backup_20070310050006'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
BACKUP DATABASE [model] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackupmodelmodel_backup_200703100500.bak'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''model_backup_20070310050006'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
BACKUP DATABASE [msdb] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackupmsdbmsdb_backup_200703100500.bak'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''msdb_backup_20070310050006'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
BACKUP DATABASE [hl7 db_SamirTesting] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackuphl7 db_SamirTestinghl7 db_SamirTesting_backup_200703100500.bak'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''hl7 db_SamirTesting_backup_20070310050006'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
BACKUP DATABASE [dg_efilm_153] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackupdg_efilm_153dg_efilm_153_backup_200703100500.bak'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''dg_efilm_153_backup_20070310050006'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
BACKUP DATABASE [hl7 db] TO DISK = N''D:mssqlackuphl7 dbhl7 db_backup_200703100500.bak'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''hl7 db_backup_20070310050006'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
Please help,
-tim
Hi,
What is the impact of changing the recovery mode of a database from Full to simple? The client I am at has set their database to full recovery mode, set their log files to grow automatically. But I don't think they have ever done a backup of their transaction log (it has grown to over 19Gig, where the data portion of the database is only around 400M).
What is the impact of truncating the transaction log now? After truncating it, i would like to shrink the file to a managable number and change the recovery mode to simple (they don't need transaction log backups)
Any info on this would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Jim
When we do a full database backup manually, we are seeing the trn file reflect the current date/time, but we are not seeing the mdf reflect the new date/time. And we are not seeing the transaction log file decrease in size. the recovery mode is set to full, do we need to change to simple to see both the mdf being backup'ed?
View 5 Replies View Relatedhi,
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My understanding was that in 'SIMPLE' recovery mode, the transaction log would not grow because it would automatically be truncated after a checkpoint. However this is not the case. I thought perhaps it could be due to a long running uncomitted transaction, but when I ran 'dbcc opentran', the oldest running transactions doesn't last for more than a couple minutes. I manually run a 'checkpoint' command as well in the hope of forcing the transaction log truncation. I repeat this a couple of times to no avail. When I run 'dbcc sqlperf(logspace)' , I can still see the transaction log growing.
It is not until I run 'backup log db with truncate_only' that the transaction log gets truncated.
I do not understand, why the transaction log does not get automatically truncated in SIMPLE recovery mode?
Andrew
Is this Possible, If database is in Simple recovery Mode and the ldf size gets increased?? .
mdf size : 159 GB (171,383,717,888 bytes)
ldf size : 6.46 GB (6,945,505,280 bytes).
My question is if the recovery model is in Simple Mode then why the log gets generated high.
dbcc sqlperf(logspace) --output
DATABASE Logsize(MB) Log space used(%) status
mam 6623.742
0.4305579
0
Is there any issue or it is Normal.
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DatafileMB: 38,063.63, DataAvailableMB: 37,085.15
LogfileMB: 2181.51
Sysfiles shows:
fileidgroupidsizemaxsizegrowthstatusperfname
114872144-112820SomeDB
202792332684354561010486420SomeDB_log
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The server is running SQL Server 2014 and the DB is in compatibility mode SQL Server 2008 (100). It was upgraded to 2014 a month or two ago.
I have tried to re-size the log to 100mb, but any way I have tried (none gave errors), the log file remains the same size. I have tied to shrink the log file (through the UI and via DBCC commands) without success; no errors, but also no change in file size.
I have checked Log Reuse Waits, just in case, and as expected it showed “NOTHING” (select log_reuse_wait_desc, name from sys.databases)
I tried running a checkpoint, but that did not allow any resize or shrink to work.
I have tied creating large transactions to move the used point in the log file, in case this was the issue. I did this by creating tables that I drop after large inserts. While it shows me that the log space % used increased, the log file still does not allow the space to be reduced.
The following is what I was using for the transactions to get the log used.
BEGIN TRAN
select a.* into testtable from sysobjects a, sysobjects b, sysobjects c
ROLLBACK TRAN
Each insert creates 93,576,664 rows.
Running dbcc SQLPerf(logspace) :
DBLogSize(MB)LogSpaceUsed(%)Status
SomeDB2181.534.204890
Running dbcc loginfo:
RecoveryUnitIdFileIdFileSizeStartOffsetFSeqNoStatusParityCreateLSN
0211437342728192602640
02114373427211437424645701280
Do I just need to continue running large transactions until the log space used gets high enough to get the “end point” in the log to really move? Is there an easier way to accomplish this (I have several DBs that have the almost identical problem), what I am using moves the Log Space Percent Used about a percent on each execution.
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Thanks,
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I currently have a SQL backup process that backs up my databases via the network to a backup hard drive on a separate system. I recently began getting strange issues with my backup process in which it continually writes to the backup drive until the drive fills up and then the job fails. I also noticed that when I kill the job on the host server, the backup file drops to the normal file size. The normal file size is 300 GB but it has grown to over 400GB. I looked at various logs and even performed several backup tests with success.
I am trying to figure out if this is a known SQL Server issue or an issue with the OS?
specs:
windows 64bit/sql server 2k5 64bit
Thanks in advance for the help.
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Good Morning guys n Gals.
New user on these forums, so basically, hey, how are yas?
I have a bit of a situation, and have done a search - although not much info has turned up relating to my situation (maybe my search was just useless).
Anyways, basically, I run SQL Server 6.5 on NT4 server.
The disks were striped - not RAIDED.
What happened was, the 4th disk died, and we replaced it with a new blank drive.
Now, I am left with two DAT files (log and data) for my database.
I cannot remember how large these were created as it was many years ago.
I have no backups.
Reseting the status hasn't worked, also I have tried creating a new DB / Devices (in size similar to those reported in windows), and "moving" the devices to point to the original ones, but no luck: and thus was wondering if anybody had any hint / tips or ideas?
Cheers,
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Hello Everyone,
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Hello all
as indicated by my stupid question, I am very new to sql. our vrsion is 2000 and I'm talking about in enterprise manager, the database that was created is not showing up in the list of db. Although I can see the file in explorer.
The problem Im having is when I try to attach the database mailarchive3Q2007_data.mdf? it is also looking for the log file mailarchive3Q2007_log.ldf? . The log file was removed by someone else off our system. I have a backup of the file but it is too large to restore now (160 gig) when the system was first set up the recovery model was not set to simple so the log just grew till it filled up our drive. I no longer have the drive space necessary to restore the log file and shrink it. So what do I do now? I need some kind of mailarchive3Q2007_log.ldf? file to attach the database in enterprise manager.
Hope sombody can help.
thanks
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Hi,
How to make all MSSQL DBs run in Simple log form by default other than FULL so when we srhink DBs the logs will go bybye. :-)
Thanks
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Hi,
Could anyone please tell me steps to recover the database from the suspect
mode. The backup I got is very old. Can it be recovered without the backup.
Thanks in advance
John Jayaseelan
hi...
is there a statement to display the what recovery model on the database instead using GUI. Thanks~~~