Maintenance Plan - Back Up Database Task Fails Without Giving A Real Clue On How To Fix It.
Apr 18, 2008
Created a maintenance plan to backup my sharepoint databases.
When I execute it the following error occurs:
Execution failed. See the maintenance plan and SQL Server Agent job history logs for details:
Additional Information:
Job 'SharePointBackUp.Backup_SharePoint faild. (SqlManagerUI)
- Execute maintenance plan. SharePointBackUP (Error)
Messages
* Execution failed. See the maintenance plan and SQL Server Agent job history logs for details.
When checking the Maintenance PlansharePointBackUP log it is empty!
Under Job History I thinks this:
Date 4/18/2008 12:55:35 PM
Log Job History (SharePointBackUP.Backup_SharePoint)
Step ID 1
Server DESD7
Job Name SharePointBackUP.Backup_SharePoint
Step Name Backup_SharePoint
Duration 00:00:00
Sql Severity 0
Sql Message ID 0
Operator Emailed
Operator Net sent
Operator Paged
Retries Attempted 0
Message
Unable to start execution of step 1 (reason: line(1): Syntax error). The step failed.
line 1? Is that line one of the T-SQL statement? Because if that's the case then it's not because I copied and pasted the line in to a query and it executed without error.
Under SQL Agent there are no entries!
So what bloody log am I suppose to be checking?! This is very frustrating.
I then copied and pasted every sql statement in to a query and THEY all ran just fine.
What's going wrong here, and how can I correct it?
Ever since upgrading SQL Server 2005 to SP2 build 3050 all my maintenance plans which begin with a Check Database Integrity Task are failing! If I remove the task from the plan they all execute properly. If I run the T-SQL equivalent manually it executes properly.
I upgraded the server to build 3054 and rebooted several times and Im still having no luck. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help with this. -Kenny
Our backups by default go to a network location, but I'd like to modify our maintenance plans to backup to an alternative location if the primary location isn't available. I've setup two Backup Database Tasks where the second one runs only if the first one Fails, and if the second one runs (on first one's failure) it then sends a notification to me so I know this occurred.
The Plan is running as expected, when I simulate a bad path in the first Backup Task the second one runs and the notification is sent, but the Job shows failure. I'd like to show the job as Successful when this occurs since I'm handling the issue and notification within the Plan, but I'm unable to find out how. I've set FailParentOnFailure to False on the Plan and I've changed the MaximumErrorCount to 2 with the assumption that this would work, but neither didn't.
Also I'm running into this in both SQL 2008 and SQL 2012.
I was trying to configure maintenance plan to take nightly full database backup and Log backup. I was trying to configure it like in attached file. Any links that i can follow and configure as in attached file.
I have inherited a server on which is a maintenance plan with two subplans on different schedules. In each subplan there are Execute T-SQL tasks with scripts for index rebuilds. Each task is set up with a Completion arrow to the next task and a Failure arrow to a Notify Operator Task. I was asked to add a task for index rebuilds to a specific subplan for a specific database, which is what the other tasks also do. I discovered that my task was failing but the others were fine. No notification was sent about my task failing even though the job is marked in MSDB as a failed job. I have sent a test email using the "Send Test Email..." option when right clicking Database Mail in SSMSand I receive an email so I know Database Mail works.
I set up a test job to model the index job that I can't get notifications from. I have two T-SQL tasks that just select the top row from a small table. The first task has a syntax error that I did so it would fail. I have a failure arrow to a Notify Operator Task and a Completion arrow to another T-SQL task with no syntax error which has a Success arrow to a Notify Operator task. As expected, when I execute this job I receive one failure email and one success email.
The only other troubleshooting step I know to try is to add a Notify Operator task before my failing task. That Notify Operator task will hopefully fire to tell me that the previous step was successful. I am not having problems with the other steps so I was just thinking I would try to get the subplan to send me a success email about one of the steps that has been working fine.
I have a maintenance plan set to back up my 2 primary databases, one about 1 GB, the other about 2GB. I have about 4 GB available on the back up drive. I have set it to delete old backups more than 1 minute old. Problem is, the first night it works fine, the second night it sometimes it refuses to delete the old and therefore does not have enough space to complete the new back-up. Does anyone run into this before? Does it complete both back-ups THEN erase the old, in which case I need to have about 6GB available? Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It can be going along fine for weeks then stop working. Any info or links to how this is supposed to work would help.
I created a maintenance plan to back up a database. It fails and I get the follow error in the log file.
Microsoft (R) SQLMaint Utility (Unicode), Version [Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000)] Error 4064: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot open user default database. Login failed.
What user is it referring to? What user does a Maintenance plan use to login as? SA on the server has full access to all databases. SA’s default database is master and I can read and write to it with the enterprise manager and query analyzer.
On SQL 2005 with mixed authentication, I am simply trying to create a maintenance plan to backup one single database. When I get to the end of the wizard, the creation process fails with this message:
Create maintenance plan failed().
I installed SQL 2005 using my domain account and the services are running under my account credentials. I am a domain and local admin.
I created a user db integrity maintenance task. The created job runs once a week. It fails. How do you tell at what point is fails? The history log is not specific about where things go off the rails.
The job errors as follows - Execution of job "User Integrity check subplan_1 failed. See history log for details
If I run the sql in a query window it goes right through - error free.
USE [AcAspNetDB] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'AcAspNetDB', NOINDEX) GO USE [LCCIntranet_Config] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'LCCIntranet_Config', NOINDEX) GO USE [library_SSP_Search_DB] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'library_SSP_Search_DB', NOINDEX) GO USE [Librarysspdb] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'Librarysspdb', NOINDEX) GO USE [seeunity] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'seeunity', NOINDEX) GO USE [SharedServicesv2_DB] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'SharedServicesv2_DB', NOINDEX) GO USE [SharedServicesv2_Search_DB] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'SharedServicesv2_Search_DB', NOINDEX) GO USE [SharePoint_AdminContent_bc87e79f-4873-4ec0-b2bb-734054a2564d] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'SharePoint_AdminContent_bc87e79f-4873-4ec0-b2bb-734054a2564d', NOINDEX) GO USE [WSS_Content] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'WSS_Content', NOINDEX) GO USE [WSS_Content_lccintranet80] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'WSS_Content_lccintranet80', NOINDEX) GO USE [WSS_Content_LCCSSPv2] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'WSS_Content_LCCSSPv2', NOINDEX) GO USE [WSS_Content_library] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'WSS_Content_library', NOINDEX) GO USE [WSS_Content_librarymysite] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'WSS_Content_librarymysite', NOINDEX) GO USE [WSS_Content_libraryssp] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'WSS_Content_libraryssp', NOINDEX) GO USE [WSS_Content_mysitev2] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'WSS_Content_mysitev2', NOINDEX) GO USE [WSS_Search_ISSMOSS] GO DBCC CHECKDB(N'WSS_Search_ISSMOSS', NOINDEX)
W2k3SP2 running SQL2k5SP2 in mixed mode. Trying to run a daily maintenance plan with a domain admin service account [domainsqlsvc]. This account is having login failure when I try to run the maintenance job. Would like to figure out why this account cannot authenticate with SQL. I believe I have local login denied, but login as a svc and login as a batch job are both enabled in Domain Policy.
What am I missing?
TIA for your help!
-Nick
EDIT: Here is the error data.
Date 11/14/2007 9:36:16 AM Log SQL Server (Current - 11/14/2007 9:36:00 AM) Source Logon Message Login failed for user 'domainsqlsvc'. [CLIENT: <local machine>] Error:18456, Severity: 14, State: 16
I get the following message when I execute a mantenance plan to delete files older than 1 day.
Error # -1073548784
Executing the query "EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'',N'',N'2007-09-30T07:56:09' " failed with the following error: "Error executing extended stored procedure: Invalid Parameter". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
I am administering several SQL Servers running SQL Server 2005 SP2 Build 3042. I have a common maintenance plan that runs on each of the servers. The maintenance plan runs fine on all the servers except for one. On the one server the Database Integrity check fails with the following error:
Check Database integrity on Local server connection Databases: <list of databases> Include indexes Task start: 2008-02-21T00:05:42. Task end: 2008-02-21T00:05:46. Failed0) Alter failed for Server €˜XYZ€™
I created a test maintenance plan to just do the integrity check and selected one database only and this also failed with the same error message. I ran this test maintenance plan and configured it for each of the databases in question and it failed each time. If I run the DBCC manually against the databases they all report fine.
I read some of the post that talked about the €œAllow Updates€? being set incorrectly but that does not apply to my problem since my configured and run values are set to 0.
I have a scenario where i have to run update task on multiple servers in parallel and once all of them are completed (success or failure) another task is to be run on another server
1. in maintenance plan, if we add tasks which are not joined, will they run in paralled at the same time 2. if we link the last task to all the tasks with link type 'completed' will the last task complete after all tasks are completed or when any one of them is completed (i have big doubt here)
the business requirement behind this is to bring data from multiple servers into shadow copies locally and then process them together. its ok if some server data transfer fails, but its not ok to start processing centrally while data transfer is going on. further, we want to run data transfer from multiple servers in paralleled to save time.
Has anyone been able to successfully delete old backup files(*.bak) and tran logs (*.trn) TOGETHER using maintenance plan cleanup task in SQL 2005 SP2.
this is transact sql running in the back ground. EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'F:MSSQL.2MSSQLBackupibmdir',N'"bak" & "trn"',N'2007-03-26T22:21:14',1
This DOESNT WORK.
It works if I just try to delete only one of the things ie trn or bak files.
We are using a database maintenance plan to backup and reindex our db's. Up until the end of last month this was working perfectly - however now it has stopped deleting the old backups (even though we have checked 'Delete files over 1 day old').
Does anyone have any ideas as to why they are now being deleted - and how we can remove them automatically - has something been corruped? Would it be a case of creating a new maintenance plan?
I have a Database Maintenance Plan that back up some databases and delete old backup files that more than two day. Can any one have idea which action is first, backup or delete old files?
Overview of my database: size - 45 GB, Full Recovery Mode, Log shipping ever 15 minutes; Full Backup nightly; Optimization and integrity checks on Sunday night.
The Database takes a transactional log every 15 minutes and ships it to our failover database. Usually these are small logs and are executed in matter of seconds. On sunday night there is a problem. The optimization job (part of DB maintenance plan) runs for 3 hours and during this time the transactional log backup continues to runs and takes close to 4 hours of complete. When the tran log completes its close to a 30 GB file and this is causing problems with space and shipping. This also causes the failover server to be out of sync and at times we have to re setup log shipping.
Does anyone know if there is a way to get around this problem. Appreciate all help and comments.
I need to create sql 2005 standard maintenance plan for system and user databases and database maintenance plan should include Reorganize index task, full backup task, maintenance cleanup task(for backup files), history cleanup task.
What should be the tasks order ? please let me know....I have to complete this on 8 servers by 11/16/2007 10 AM PST
In sql 2000 database maintenance plan, any rebuild index task is there ??
I have in production, the database maintenance plan that runs the nightly backups. I want to restore this to a completly different server I am setting up for testing. What is the best way to restore a backup on one server (that was done using the maintenance plan) to another server? I tried just mapping a drive and then forcing a restore, however, I got some error message about an ID or something. Maybe I need to do it through query analyzer and there is an easier way to force it? thanks!
I ran the Maintenance Plan Wizard and created 2 plans, one for the system databases and one for the User databases. While running the wizard I was asked if I wanted to configure an operator to e-mail reports to.
Once that operator is selected, how can you change it without recreating the maintenance plan?
This is separate from an operator that can be configured within each job.
I am using Database Maintenance Plan to run backups. But I am quite short in disk space. So I declared to remove previous backups to release disk space. Still have problem when writing backup file onto the hard drive. I suspect that SQL first tries to complete backup and put in on the disk and only after that removes old file. Could not find any tips in BOL or elsewhere in what order this all goes - backup - then removal or removal - then backup. If anyone know I would be very happy for the rest of my life. Thanks.
I have a database maintenance plan set up to run for user databases. The integrity checks job for a user database failed today with the error 'error 7919 Repair cannot be processed, db must be in single user mode' . I have scheduled the job to run once every week. Is this a bug in sql server 2000? I thought that the db is placed into single user mode when the integrity job starts. Please advise.
When i was going to run the Database Maintenance Plan Wizard on one of my databases, i received the following warning:
"Database 'HGB' is over 400MB in size. It is not recommended that you run the Database Maintenance Plan Wizard on databases exceeding this size. Do you still want to continue?"
My database has 1GB data space, with 757MB free and 341MB log, with 211MB free. What´s the matter on having too much free space? I thought that was good...
I have a Database maintenance plan (DMP) that always fails! The plan reorganises data and index pages and checks database integrity. The plan covers several databases, and it always fails on the same database.
The error message (in the DMP history) is the following: "[Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 01000)] Error 0: This server has been disconnected. You must reconnect to perform this operation."
The odd thing is that the DMP is locally executed, so I don't see why the network could be an issue here.
Hi everybody, I need a way to create a database maintenance plan in SQL Server 2000, without using the wizard. So, I am looking for a way to create this plan either using TSQL or (even better) using VB6 code (maybe by using SQLDMO library). I want the end-user of my vb6 application to decide for the options of the plan (like scheduling or backup directory). Does anybody have any sample vb6 code for doing this? Thanks in advance.
I need to create sql 2005 maintenance plan for system and user databases which includes Database integrity check and Rebuild index tasks but these two things should happen at different times. Is it possible to schedule these two tasks at different times under single database maintenance plan, if so please let me know...
when i right click to create a new maintenance plan. (no maintenance plans exist yet). I get this error.
The action you attempted to perform on a remote instance of SQL Server has failed because the action requires a SQL Server Component that is not installed on the remote computer. To Proceed, install SQL Server 2005 Management Tools on the remote computer and try again.
I want to create sql 2005 maintenance plan which includes Database integrity check and Rebuild index tasks but these two things should happen at different times. Is it possible to schedule these two tasks at different times under single database maintenance plan, if so please let me know...ASAP
I learned how to make SQL database BACKUPs through Maintenance Plans in SQL server 2005 in my own computer. So my question is: When I finally would be deploying my ( asp.net 2.0) web site in a distant real server, how could I set a Maintenance Plan there ?
I will mention this problem I am having with one our servers. This server has several databases and four maintenance plans that schedule the backup, integrity and optimizations.
Now for only one of these plans, the rest of the plans are identical, on this server when I select the option "Perform these tests before backing up the database or transaction log" in the "Integrity" tab and save it, it does not stay selected. By that I mean, if I go back to the maintenance plan properities and check if the option is selected, it shows that it is not. While I had just selected the option a moment ago and saved it.
I realized this when the integrity jobs did not run before the backups as they used to. So, somehow this option got unselected and cannot be selected anymore.
On another server, there are three maintenance plans and all of them have the same problem. No matter what I do, I cannot save the plan with that option.
To give you guys some background, I already SP3 applied to all these SQL2000 servers running on Windows 2000. Also, these plans used to work fine before. For sometime, I have had some problems like these with my local installation of SQL server but not on our production boxes. Now it seems like the problem has propogated to them too.
Has anyone come across anything like this. Any help or direction would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Hi,We have a SQL-cluster with over 6300 databases, most of them prettysmall in size and usage.For this reason all these databases are on auto-close ( Otherwise SQLwould need many many gigabytes ).We've recently upgraded to SQL 2005 because of the Management Studio,because the EM is unusable on a SQL-Server with lots of databases.But whenever you choose 'all user databases' or 'all databases' in anyof the DB Maintenance task, MSSQL begins starting up every databasewhich takes about 30 minutes. Until then, you cannot use your Studioanymore.My question : is there a possibility to avoid this behavior, it shouldnot go and check all those db's, just add my task.PS : Detaching these databases is not an option ...Thanks in advance,Sven Peeters
