Log Backups On Heavy And Busy Database
Apr 30, 2008
What will be best procedure for the following situation.
Heavy traffic database on daily basis. G growth every day. so Full backups every nights are needed.
Vendor recommends not taking Log backups but copy just log files over other location. will this help avoid degrading the performance during business hours.
if i don't take log backups, i am not able to recover Point in time if needed.
also log files can then grow faster and then i will have to shrink it more often.
what are risks and suggestions.
Thanks,
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Dec 15, 2007
Hi, I'm new to c# and sql2005 express. I'm getting an error on the simplest of activities. From C#, i create a database, create a table, then try to delete the database and get a database busy error. I think its because sql has some connections to the database its not releasing. I have already tried closing the connection, disposing of the object and forcing garbage collection for the c# app to no avail.
can someone explain to me wat is going on?
Here is the only function i am calling for c#. I pass in T-SQL command strings such as 'Ceate Database myDB','Create Table myTbl','Drop Database myDB', etc.. :
private bool ExecuteSQLNonQry(string sqlStr)
{
SqlConnection myConn = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString);
SqlCommand SqlCmd = new SqlCommand(sqlStr, myConn);
try
{
myConn.Open();
SqlCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
myConn.Close();
return true;
}
catch(Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message.ToString());
return false;
}
}
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Mar 30, 2007
Hi,
Mirroring has been working fine on 2 identical servers. We even tested failover and that worked....but today something happened (still investigating) and suddenly the Principal is disconnected and we cannot force failover with:
ALTER DATABASE [LeoCTI] SET PARTNER FORCE_SERVICE_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS
Error: The command failed because the database mirror is busy! Try again later!
How can I bring the principal back online? It won't let me do anything, won't let me turn off mirroring etc. etc.
HELP PLEASE!
Thanks
Hyper aka Richard
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I'm attempting to debug some query timeouts on a production server.
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When running a test against SQL Server 2005 Express most of the connections work fine, but some don't. I get that Exception;
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It seems to me I am reaching some kind of limitation. What can I do to increase the number of connectionst?
Regards, Jean
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When we get about 50 users hitting the app and doing searches simultaneously, performance drops severely (20 secs+ for a query rather than ~2 secs), and we get a lot of errors - which report that:
Source: .Net SqlClient Data ProviderMessage: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.
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Neither the Web not the SQL machines are being hit very hard - the web server in particular is not under any strain whatsoever.
It doesn't appear to be related to connection pooling, from the logged error messages we're getting.
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I'm trying to take data and push it into a new database.
This data was taken from a database where there were many contraints, FK etc. quite a complicated structure and now sent to us with just the data in the tables with none of these constraints, FK!!
This data now needs pushing into the original database structure, so all the data will live within the constraints, but using an insert SPROC throws some FK errors, what is the best way to push this data into it's structure!
somebody suggested DTS but this doesn't take into account the constraints, also we need to run this at anytime for a number different datasets. Can anybody help ?(if you can decipher my explantion)
Many thanks for reading, please indicate if you need more info.
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I have a specific job that should be run with a decreased memory usage when the workload is heavy on the SQL Server.
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How can this job bee handled from the application, without having to create a separate batch job.
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Are there any special types of strategies I should implement ? Or is a properly designed structure with indexes likely sufficient (on the right hardware of course)
Thanks for any advice!,
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Nov 15, 2015
The space allocated to the Log in question is 180 GB. During this time period I was running TLog backups every 5 minutes, yet the log continued to chew through to 80 GB used, even after the process was complete and a final TLog backup had been taken. It continued to stay very large until the Full backup was complete -- or something else that I'm unaware of completed. Like every other DBA I typically take a TLog backup to shrink the log, but what appeared to be the case here was the Full completed and it released the used log space. All said, will Transaction Log backups not free up the log during Full backups?
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Nov 27, 2000
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Mar 16, 2006
I have to perform a backup for disaster recovery purposes before an application upgrade. The upgrade will alter the database and stored procedures. My cuurent backup takes a backup of master and msdb weekly. The user database uses the Full Recovery model and is backed up daily at 21:00 and the logs daily at 13:00. Assuming the databse is modified between the last backup and the upgrade starting at 9:00am what should my backup stratergy be for roll back purposes.
1) backup master, msdb and the user Database to a different location than the normal backups. Use these to restore if required
2) backup the master, msdb and user databases using the same jobs and therefore overwriting the original evening backups
3) do nothing and just restore master and msdb from a backup and replay the logs to a given point in time for thr user database should the upgrade fail
Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated.
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Thanks.
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Nov 12, 2000
Hello,
Can anyone tell me what the impact of dynamic database backups in sql 6.06.5
will have on users using the database?
Will their user processes be blocked?
Will their queries run slower than normal (how slower)?
Will there be a lot of locking activity as the SQl tries to backup?
Will the serverdatabase run slower
Anything else I may be missing?
Regards,
Hitesh
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Jul 28, 1998
I am looking for the best method to backup SQL Server databases. Currently we are
running a dump database statement to disk and backing up the files to tape through Arcserve.
One problem that I am having is the statement to dump the database. I would like to retain
the dump for at least three days and be able to restore the database from any one of those
three days. My current statement is:
"DUMP DATABASE CHOISDAT TO DISK=`D:BACKUPCHOIS.BAK` WITH
NOUNLOAD , STATS = 10, INIT , RETAINDAYS = 3, NOSKIP"
but, every other day I receive the message from SQL executive:
"Can`t open dump device `D:BACKUPCHOIS.BAK`, device error or device off line.
Please consult the SQL Server error log for more details. (Message 3201)"
What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?
P.S.
Is there anyway to tell the Maintenance Wizard to delete the backups. I tried using the wizard but
the backup files still remain on the disk and I have to delete them every week.
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Jun 19, 2007
Hi All
I have a database which is 72GB, which is backed up every night as part of the maintenance plan. I have plenty of storage space, and the server that runs the database is fairly powerful (quad-processor 3.2ghz, 64bit, 48GB RAM) and is part of an active-passive cluster. The database backup is also copied to a SAN location.
My issue is with the size of the backup file. As part of the Disaster Recovery plan, I need to copy this database backup file accross the network to a remote site, so that in the event of a disaster at the site, business can continue at the remote site after restoring the database backup file. However, my database backup file is so big that I cannot copy it accross the network in time for the next morning. I have tried using WinRar and have managed to achieve a file about 20% of its original size, but it takes 2 hours to produce this file.
Is there any recommended reeading for this type of issue? Log shipping / mirroring has been investigated and will be part of the DR model but the 'powers that be' insist on having a full copy performed to the remote site.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance guys n gals :-)
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Jun 4, 2008
HI Gurus,
Can anyone of you please post the link related to types of database backups which i can use for my reference purpose.
Thanks,
ServerTeam
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Feb 26, 2004
Our DBs are set up to do a full backup once a day (late at night) and then transaction log backups during the day at shorter intervals.
I want to setup a dev database on the same server. I want this database to be an automatically restored copy of the live database. So every night, after the full backup of the live DB, I want to restore the live DB to this dev DB.
Can this be automated? Can the restore automatically stop the dev database in case some open connections exist?
Is there a better way to do this?
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Sep 13, 2002
In a non-clustered environment, I am under the impression that backups must be to a local disk or local tape device.
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My question is, will SQL Server 2K support backing up to the disk in the shared array since it is (I believe) not considered a local disk? What key points may I need to know.
Thanks very much for the help!!
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Jun 2, 2014
I have inherited a new SQL Server 2008 database server and can not figure out how my user databases are being backed up. This database server is running under a VM.
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I have looked at the windows event viewer with out any luck. There are no SQL Server Maintenance Plans or Agent jobs that call a backup. I have also checked the Windows Task Scheduler and can not find any task that does a backup.Could the backups be called from another server ?
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May 8, 2007
Hello everyone! Looking for some insight here on database backups that fail.
We have many SQL servers that we maintain by storing Job/Maintenence Plan history on a central server, which then emails out daily reports to let us know what backed up last night and what didn't
This was easy to do in SQL 2000, not so much in SQL 2005. I have put together a query that gathers the info I need for the successes:
SELECT DISTINCT '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001' AS Plan_ID, mpld.line1 as "Plan Name", bud.database_name as "Database", mpld.server_name, 'Backup Database' as Activity, mpld.succeeded, bs.backup_finish_date, DATEDIFF (MS,bs.backup_start_date,bs.backup_finish_date) as Duration, bs.backup_start_date, mpld.error_number, mpld.error_messageFROM msdb.dbo.sysmaintplan_logdetail mpld
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.backupset bs
on (select convert(char(12),mpld.start_time,109))=(select convert(char(12),bs.backup_start_date,109))-- on bs.database_name=bud.database_name
inner join
msdb.dbo.bu_dbs bud
on bs.database_name = bud.database_name
WHERE mpld.succeeded = 1 and mpld.line2 like 'Backup%' and bs.type='d'
and bs.backup_start_date > ( SELECT CONVERT(char(12), (GETDATE()-1), 109) )
ORDER BY bud.database_name DESC
But I am having trouble using a query to determine the databases the FAILED during backup. MSDB.BackupSet and MSDB.SYSMaintPlan_LogDetail really have nothing,because often times, even if a step in a Maint. Plan fails, the plan finishes reporting success.
Does anyone know of a good way to gather info about failed database backups?
Thank you!
Mario
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Jul 23, 2005
Hi All.I'm currently maintaining 4 servers - 1 for public/customers and 3for backups, development, etc...I regularly backup the entire SQL database for our public server andrestore it on each of the other servers. Lately, however, the databasebackups have grown (in size) incredibly fast - they've gone from about200MB to 2+ GB in 2 months. (I wasn't entirely surprised by this atfirst since our client traffic has drastically increased as well.) Theweird thing, though, is that (on two of the backup servers) when Irestore the backup then use those servers to create a new completebackup, the new backup is only about 200-300 MB in size.My assumption is that there's some kind of setting buried deep insidethe sql configuration allowing it to compress or otherwise alterbackups. Does anyone have any ideas/thoughts as to what may be causingthis issue?We're using SQL Server 7 on Windows 2000 servers.Thanks in advance.GreggJoin Bytes!
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Jun 5, 2015
I am trying to find out where is the maintenance plan which is backing up SQL Dbs on its own at 12 am daily where as we didn't scheduled maintenance plans at all. We see I/o frozen and resume events every day in event l/o
Log Name:Â Â Â Â Â Application
Source:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â MSSQL$MSSQLSERVER2K8
Date:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 5/4/2015 12:00:23 AM
Event ID:Â Â Â Â Â 3198
Task Category: Server
Level:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Information
Keywords:Â Â Â Â Â Classic
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Mar 20, 2007
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I need to move the sites that are not created (for any reasons) by web service to another table and successfully created sites to another table, so I need to get confirmation for each site from the web service.
Which option is better?
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OR
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Aug 20, 1999
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Mar 27, 2007
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Jan 8, 2007
Michael writes "We are running SQL and Veritas to backup the databases. Supposedly the SQL agent in Veritas, after a full backup, truncates the log files but for some reason this isn't happening... any ideas?"
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Sep 10, 2007
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.
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Jul 20, 2005
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Dec 27, 2006
Hi, I back up SQL Server 2000 and SQL server 2005 databases to hard disk using the SQL Server Backup Wizard and maintenance plans. Then, I copy the resulting backups to tape using third party tape backup software and compression by the backup software and hardware. I do not use the SQL Server Agent available for the third party backup software. Is this acceptable, or does the compression performed by the third party backup system introduce opportunities for database corruption or other negative effects?
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