Named Backups Using Database Maint Wizard
Aug 20, 1999Has anyone been able to find a way to name the files within your backup using the Database Maintenance Wizard in SQL 7.0?
Thanks for your input?
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Backups: SQL Vs Maint Plan Vs BkpExec
Aug 14, 2001It seems there are at least 3 ways to back up my databases in SQL2000
1) Veritas BackupExec
2) SQL Sever Backup
3) SQL Maintenance Plan
I don't quite see what the difference is between 2 & 3.
I'm currently using Veritas to do a full backup to tape, and a separate full backup to disk via a Maint Plan (a complete backup & trans log backup). It looks as though I've finally got my trans log to stop getting bigger (it started a new one) .... can I delete the huge one I don't need anymore. Does "truncate" mean the log is deleted, or just inactive as a new log gets created. I been reading up on this, but apparently it hasn't sunk in yet.
Please give me any long winded, but clear help you might have
Baffled. How To Purge Old Backups With Maint Plan
Apr 13, 2006I'm missing something basic...
Trying to create a new job from sql server 2005 Management Studio. The nifty wizard under Management provides options to create backups, and clean history, but I cant seem to find out how to create a job to purge old backups.
Looking at the commnand line Sql Server Agent Job shows:
/SQL "Maintenance PlansFull Backups" /SERVER "JFSLIB-DEV" /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF
But as you can see, doesn't help a novice like myself, as it appears to be command options to run the "integration" package.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Import Wizard - Using Query For Remote Database To Compare Local Database
Apr 10, 2008I am trying to use the Import Wizard to setup a daily job to import new records based on an ID field (PK). The source database is remote and a replica. I am inserting new records to update my table called the same thing. Both are SQL Native Client
Code Snippet
select *
from [CommWireless].[dbo].[iQclerk_SaleInvoicesAndProducts] as S1
join [IQ_REPLICA].[dbo].[iQclerk_SaleInvoicesAndProducts] as S2
on S1.SaleInvoiceID = S2.SaleInvoiceID
where S1.SaleInvoiceID > S2.SaleInvoiceID
When I parse the query, I keep getting an error message.
Deferred prepare could not be completed.
Statement(s) could not be prepared.
Invalid object name 'IQ_REPLICA.dbo.iQ_SaleInvoicesAndProducts'. (Microsoft SQL Native Client)
Anyone know an easy why to get this to work? Or should I add a create table to verify new records?
Could The ADS Access Database Sychronizer Wizard Accomodate A Remote Database?
Jan 4, 2008
I've used the ADS sample program and it works well. I looked at the code and changed it to VB (sorry, I'm not biligual yet), and have tried to 'adjust' it so I can connect to a remote PC (XP running IIS) instead of the local PC using the workgroup information database (system.mdw). Any ideas of the connection string that could make the connection?..my intention is to RDA once a week between a mobile device (3g/gsm) and a 'poor man's' IIS web server.
I've tried everything I can think of, and I'm sure its possible since all I'm doing is changing the connection path.
An Attempt To Attach An Auto-named Database For File (file Location).../Database.mdf Failed. A Database With The Same Name Exists, Or Specified File Cannot Be Opened, Or It Is Located On UNC Share.
Sep 2, 2007Greetings, I have just arrived back into the country (NZ) and back into ASP.NET.
I am having trouble with the following:An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file (file location).../Database.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share.
It has only begun since i decided i wanted to use IIS, I realise VWD comes with its own localhost, but since it is only temporary, i wanted a permanent shortcut on my desktop to link to my intranet page.
Anyone have any ideas why i am getting the above error? have searched many places on the internet and not getting any closer.
Cheers ~ J
DB Engine :: Will Transaction Log Backups Not Free Up Log During Full Backups
Nov 15, 2015The 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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Mar 16, 2001Why is my database backup file so big? It's about 10 X bigger than the actual data files
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Nov 27, 2000I know that I have read not to backup a database over a netwrok. So I am curious as to what others are doing out there. BAckup to your local hard drive on the server and then move the backup files to a repository some where on the network? Do others have a file structure out on another server that stores all of the backups from all of the different servers that have SQL 7.0 on them? We are a small company and are just starting to migrate data to SQL Server 7.0.
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Mar 16, 2006I 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.
How Do I Create A Database Wizard To Install My Database Anywhere
Nov 9, 1999Hi.. i have created a project which uses SQL 7 as a database and have finished it. MY supervisor wants me
to create a wizard that will be able to install the database on any NT 4.0 machine. How do i start and go about doing
it
Please help
thanks
Database Named SUSPECT????
Jan 25, 2001Dear friends,
I had a huge problem with my SQL database and I had it restored by using my back up tapes from the days before. I tried to back it up although it allowed me to restore it...it now says that the database is "suspect"= not found,,lost?... How can I get rid of this suspect & open my database,,, Does this mean that my database cannot be restored from a prior day (using my backup tapes from past days through the server?)
Can someone please help me concerning "suspect database names in SQL Serbver 7.0?
Any ideas ...please help me ...more detail?
Thanks in advance,
Brad Isaacs
Junior VB Developer / SQL Server 7.0 databases
Dyanamic Database Backups In 6.5
Nov 12, 2000Hello,
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
SQL Server Database Backups
Jul 28, 1998I 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.
Database Backups && Compression
Jun 19, 2007Hi 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 :-)
Types Of Database Backups
Jun 4, 2008HI 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
There Is Already An Object Named 'IX_&<table&>' In The Database
Aug 3, 2007Hi. I tried the following alter statement:
Code:
alter table userphotos
add constraint IX_userid unique (userid)
and got the following error:
Quote:
Msg 2714, Level 16, State 4, Line 3
There is already an object named 'IX_userid' in the database.
Msg 1750, Level 16, State 0, Line 3
Could not create constraint. See previous errors.
I previously created the same constraint in a different table (using IX_userid). Is it not allowed to use the same naming
scheme for constraints in different tables? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
Create And Then USE A Dynamically-named Database?
Nov 2, 2006I have a need to create a database, and then populate it. However, thecode below doesn't work as I hoped it might (it creates the table inthe "master" database, which is Not A Good Thing). I know already(thanks Tony!) that if you use Dynamic SQL for the USE command, thenthe subsequent operations need to be Dynamic SQL as well, which is apity since there are over 11,000 lines of it and I don't really fancydebugging it!Does anyone have a cunning plan? In a nutshell, I would like to beable to:1. Create a new database with a derived name - as in the case below aname based on the year, though it might be month as well.2. Create and populate tables in this new database.These operations would ideally be running from a scheduled job.Any thoughts?TIAEdward====================================USE MASTERDECLARE @DBName VARCHAR(123)SET @DBName = 'MyTest_' + CAST((Year(Getdate())) AS Varchar)if not exists(select dbid from master.dbo.sysdatabases where name =@DBName)exec('CREATE DATABASE ' + @DBName)elseraiserror('Database already exists.',3, 1)EXEC ('USE ' + @DBName)if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id =object_id(N'[dbo].[TestTable]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable')= 1)drop table [dbo].[TestTable]GOCREATE TABLE [dbo].[TestTable] ([TestID] [int] NOT NULL ,[Description] [varchar] (50) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NULL) ON [PRIMARY]GO
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Feb 26, 2004Our 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?
Cluster Database Backups Question
Sep 13, 2002In a non-clustered environment, I am under the impression that backups must be to a local disk or local tape device.
My plan is to have a separate disk in a clustered environment on a shared array for holding my backups, until they can be transferred somewhere else.
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!!
solart
SQL 2012 :: User Database Backups
Jun 2, 2014I 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.
All the user databases are being backed up nightly per the SQL server log. The backups are written to a virtual disk and is kicked off by the NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM user. I can not see the virtual disk. A restore task does not provide any information about the last backup. I have created a new database, and it is automatically included in the next set of backups.
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 ?
How To Check For Failed Database Backups
May 8, 2007Hello 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
Database Backups Growing Exponentially
Jul 23, 2005Hi 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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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,
Database Backups And I / O Frozen Events
Jun 5, 2015I 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: Application
Source: MSSQL$MSSQLSERVER2K8
Date: 5/4/2015 12:00:23 AM
Event ID: 3198
Task Category: Server
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
[Code] ...
Database Publishing Wizard
May 27, 2008We are trying to script out database schema and data with the Database Publishing Wizard and are having problems with output script trying to create views and stored procedures before the tables they depend on.
I've seen discussion of this on their codeplex site and back in April 2007 they said that the CTP they just released fixed the problem - but we are still seeing it. Does anyone know a solution for this (beyond the obvious copy and pasting into the right order)?
What we are trying to do is move the SQL and some basic reference data into source control and a CI process.
Database Copy Wizard
Feb 24, 2004I was looking at the Database Copy Wizard to copy a database. But it says my local system does not have the permission to copy files over the network. I looked over some tuturials and changed the settings in the Security, System Account, was using my local account which has the sysadmin role, which should allow me to copy? not sure whether I am right? Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
nb178856
Copy Database Wizard
Nov 3, 2004Hello, I am trying to copy my database tables and stored procedures to my local machine. I keep gettin gthis error
CDW Error Message
X "Your SQL Server Service is running under the local system account. You need to change you SQL Server Sevice account to have the rights to copy files over the network."
What do I do to correct this?
Thanks,
Eric
Using Copy Database Wizard
Jan 9, 2002Hi,
I am attempting to use the Copy Database Wizard to copy databases from SQL Server 7 to a 2000 box. I scripted and then dropped all replications but I am still receiving an error stating that the wizard cannot be used due to replication being present. Does any know how I can work around this and still be able to use the wizard?
Thank You
Copy Database Wizard
Jan 14, 2008Hi All,
I am using a Copy Database Wizard to copy SQL 2000 db to SQL 2005. At the Execute SQL Agent Job step I get the following error:
The directory 'LocalApplicationData' does not exist.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Copy Database Wizard
Feb 19, 2002Hi, I'm trying to copy a database from a prod server to a development server and it keeps failing. The job first creates the share with no problem and then puts the database in single user mode. It then detaches the database succesfully but we keep failing on the copy file step. The step error code is 80004005. The problem is not space there is plenty on the destination server. I've tried running the job using both the administrator and sa logins. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Jan 14, 2008Hi All,
I have posted this thread this morning but I can't seem to find it. So I will post it again. I am using the Copy Database Wizard to copy SQL 2000 db to SQL 2005. At the Execute SQL Agent Job step I get the following error:
The directory 'LocalApplicationData' does not exist.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Using Copy Database Wizard
Apr 20, 2007am trying to copy a database fomr one server to another.. i keep getting errors and i dont know what i am doing wrong.. am using the sql management object method... first i was getting errors about sql server agent being disabled.. so i enabled it on both the servers... now i am getting the following error on the last step:
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Could not load type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Agent.JobBaseCollection' from assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo, Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91'. (Copy Database Wizard)
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Program Location:
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.CopyDatabaseWizard.PackageCreator.CreateAgentJob()
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.CopyDatabaseWizard.PackageCreator.CreatePackage()
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heres the report:
Performing operation...
- Add log for package (Success)
- Add task for transferring database objects (Success)
- Create package (Success)
- Start SQL Server Agent Job (Stopped)
- Execute SQL Server Agent Job (Stopped)
can anyone help... thanks!