Offline/remote Backups
Aug 10, 2006
Hi
What is the best way to perform daily offline/remote/off-premise backups of our websistes Sql Server 2005 database?
I've looked into using SSIS but for one reason or another am having serious problems with this. Ideally we'd like to be able connect over the internet and/or lan and pull the entire database down in one go. Our db is ~600mb so isn't major.
We used to use Sql Server 2000's DTS and this worked well, but I'm having a real hard time using SSIS to do the same so was wondering what the other options are
Many thanks
Ben
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Sep 21, 2006
I €˜d like to discus with you the following REAL enough disaster scenario:
1. The TEST database is in the FULL backup mode.
2. WE have a full TEST DB backup and all tr. log backups.
3. DBA moved TEST database OFFLINE for maintenance operations.
4. MDF file for TEST DB was removed by mistake.
5. TRANSACTION LOG (LDF) file is OK.
6. DBA want to recover database to the point of failure.
According with MS SQL Server 2000 documentation it is possible.
We need to backup the transaction log , BUT I CANNOT DO THIS.
PLEASE, HELP.
In the same time, I can make LDF backup and recover database to the point of failure, if database is online and I stop/start SQL Server to remove MDF file.
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May 9, 2005
Hi,
I'm looking for a bit of advice about the best way to make automatic remote backups of a MS SQL server.
I currently run a dedicated windows 2003 standard server that i have complete control over, but my databases are hosted on a shared machine that i have no control on.
Is there a way to automate backups from the SQL database onto the windows machine?
Any suggestions on how to do this would be appreciated!
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Jan 20, 1999
Using SQL Server 6.5 and NT 4.0,..I'm trying to schedule a backup of a transaction log from one SQL Server
to another SQL Server both running NT 4.0. I keep getting:
dbsvolopen:Backup device t:ackup
emote.dat failed to open, operating system error =5 (Access denied)
I've checked every conceivable permissions entry on the target NT server and am now reading about the
different security modes for communicating between SQL Servers but I'm concerned that this may not be
where the problem really resides. Time is money.
Has anyone else configured a backup strategy where the database has a full backup to tape daily and the
transaction log is backed up every couple of hours, without truncatre, to disk, on another SQL Server?
Thanks in advance,
Doug
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Mar 1, 2005
I have installed Sql Server 2000 evaluation copy on Windows XP, which I use to monitor other sql server 2000 installations (on Windows 2000) through Enterprise manager version 8.
What has been noticed is that if you try and set up a backup job through enterprise manager you do not get the option to remove inactive transaction log entries (yes the database's use full recovery models). Also if you select the verify backup option, it is not included within the job.
This is the same if you try the above on the local instance. This is not a problem as you can use the server installations, but what I am wondering is:
1. Has anyone come across this before?
2. Is it sql server 2000 on XP?
3. Is it the evaluation copy that is causing the problem?
4. Is it none of the above but indeed a far more complex reason which will mess with my head?
As always your help / knowledge is very much appreciated.
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Mar 20, 2008
We have about 40 locations worldwide, with a typical data size of about 200 GB per location, with some up to 2 TB. Most sites have 1024 to 1536 Kb/s MPLS links, with a few 2 Mb/s and one 4.5 Mb/s. Central data center has two 45 Mb/s links.
We are looking to remote, online backups to our data center from each location. I'm wondering which products and processes have worked.
Has anybody successfully implemented remote, online backups of Windows servers across their WAN to a central data center?
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Apr 10, 2007
Hi, I am relative newbie to SQLServer. When I try to take a user database offline, the query "hangs," with the query processing circle spinning. The Sharepoint 7 application is running on top of the Enterprise SQL Server 2005 db with several logins sleeping and awaiting commands. No errors are generated until I kill the offline command. Anyone have any ideas? Do I need to kill all the connections?
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Aug 21, 2005
Is there any way to backup a remote SQL Server that is on a hosted account to a local drive? We have a web hosted account that has a SQL Server that we do not have full admin rights on, just dbo access to the data and structure. We would like to be able to do backups and restores to our local development server if possible. Perhaps vis DTS or some similar means? WE cannot use the normal backup/restore as we do not have right to these fucntions nor can we access the servers local drives directly.
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Feb 18, 2015
I am thinking about moving some backups from the local machine to a remote server. Right now, I am using Ola Hallengren script for backups. The script performs checksum on the backup while it's being written on the disk. I am going to move the files using Robocopy utility. How do I check the data integrity once the backups are transferred to the remote server?
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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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Feb 19, 2008
Say you have a database that had a process run for 2 days in a transaction until if filled the disk. The error causes a rollback (presumable another 2 days). I want to restore from a backup instead of waiting for the rollback to complete. Please to be telling me how to?
Jay
to here knows when
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Sep 6, 2007
Hi!
I am moving some of my db to another disk drive.
Using this t-sql code to stop them before moving:
alter database "databasename"
set offline
go
Using this code to stop the db`s works well on some db`s, but som db`s wont stop at all.
I have to stop the excecution of the query after a few hours.
My system is SQL server 2005, sp2.
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Feb 16, 2001
I have to design, load and write scripts for a remotely hosted SQL 7.0 Server.
My desktop computers are both Windows 98. What do I need to develop and publish databases from my desktop to the remote host? I have always had the luxury of having direct access to the SQL Server and cannot find any conclusive guidance at Microsoft's site.
Thanks so much for your help.
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Jan 10, 2001
hi
i executed sp_dboption,'my_db','offline','true'
and my_db went offline ok but when i cheked in enterprise manager list of db's i found my_db marked as (suspect/offline), i refresh the window and a got the same result but wen i close the enterprise manager and open it again my_db was not in the list of db's.Now i want to bring back my_db to online by executing sp_dboption 'My_db','offline','false' i was not able to do this and the command exist with this error the database is not in the list use sp_helpdb.
Please can anyone help me on this
Best Regards
Mamzy
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Sep 28, 1998
On occasion, I notice that some of my backup devices have become "offline" and the scheduled tasks associated with them will no longer run.
I get this error:
Can`t open dump device `d:MSSQLBACKUPdvbk_AFISlog.DAT`, device error or device off line. Please consult the SQL Server error log for more details. (Message 3201)
Does anyone know how to get them back online without having to create a new device? Thanks in advance...
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Aug 28, 2002
I have a customer who's database was marked Suspect due to a drive failure that left a torn page. Before trying to reset the Suspect flag they took the database offline, and now we cannot get the database back online. Any ideas?
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Nov 27, 1998
Hi all,
We have a serious problem.
The database in SQL Server 6.5 is marked offline
and the error log displayed the following messages :
udopen : file 'F:Filename.DAT' is incorrect size (614400 bytes, should be 537600)
udactivate (primary) : failed to open device 'F:Filename.DAT' for vdn 131
The entries for the device exists in sysusages and sysdevices.
Anyone encountered this before?
Please help if you know how we can get the database online, again.
Many Thanks.
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Aug 24, 2004
OK, so I took one of my db's offline for maintenance, then realized that I wanted to be logged in as another user, so I logged out.
Now SS won't let me log in, because every time I try to connect I get:
A connection could not be established...
Reason: Cannot open user default database. Login failed..
The db I took offline is the default db for every single privileged account on the server. Why do I feel like I just locked my keys in the car?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! TIA!
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Feb 28, 2006
Over the weekend I had one of my databases taken offline. To my knowledge no one explicitly took this database offline. This isn't to say that someone did and is refusing to speak up. I'm just trying to find some answers.
I do know that our IT dept. did maintenance to a number of our servers and they swear nothing was done to this one. So my question is, "Is there any SQL process that can take a database offline."
I've checked the log files but there isn't anything that directly points to that database being taken offline.
Running Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4, SQL 2000 SP3 on a NT INTEL X86 platform.
Any ideas or comments are appreciated!
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Mar 12, 2007
What exactly is database offline? I tried to google it but didn't get what I was looking for.
One of my environments has few users. They attach databases and run an application to produce the results. Sometimes they forget to detach databases after their use and these databases remain in SQL Server. Sometimes they leave the database to use it in future.
At the moment there are about 900 databases attached. I believe these attached databases are using the servers resources and therefore, decrease performance. Is this correct?
I was thinking to force the users to detach databases that they do not need and attach when they need. Then thought why shouldn't just set the database to offline and take it back online when they need. Does this increase performance? Does this save server's resources?
Thanks,
Canada DBA
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Jul 20, 2005
hi everyoneCould someone please help me in following:One of my database in SQL 2000 going Offline automatically. When ibring it back Online its Ok for 20/30 minutes and then again appear asOffline. I had similar problem when one of the database keep going to'Single user' automatically.Any idea what happening.Thank you*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
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Mar 13, 2008
I have some reports running on a server based on cubes, available through the network.
Some users need to use these reports while they are offline and not connected to the network or internet (at a customers site for example).
Is there a way to achieve this?
Thanks,
Frans
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Jul 8, 2005
I plan on using SqlServer 2005 Express as a local datastore for my application when working offline. The idea is that the user would initiate a Synchronize action from the client application, this action would start replication going between a Networked sql 2000/2005 server and their local Express server. (At the beginning I plan on replicating the entire database).
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Jan 17, 2002
I have installed SQL Server on my laptop (full version), but can only access it while on the network. If I disconnect from the network, open Enterprise Manager, and click on my connection, I get the error "sql server does not exist or access denied". Why can't EM find my own machine? I even logged onto my own computer as a local user, instead of the network domain, and still recieved the error. Can someone tell me where I can edit (maybe my registration properties), so that I can run SQL server, while offline.
Thanks!
Trevor
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Nov 28, 2004
Hi
How to offline a spcific DataBase via Query analyzer
its very important please help me
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Dec 21, 2005
Hi,
Is there any method to get an historical log where appears the database status (Online|offline) ?
Regards.
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Jul 23, 2005
Hello there,I have a user who can bring offline a database but he cannot bring thedatabase back online.The error which pops up is:Error5011: User does not have permission to alter database dbnameALTER DATABASE statement failed.sp_dboption command failed.Any ideas?Thanks
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Jul 20, 2005
Hi,i try get information about the online or offline status of a databasewithin ms-sql srv 2000.I can look it up within server manager, but I'm looking for a way to getthis information from the command line or a select statement.Is there a command or a sql statement that tells me the status of adatabase ? There's some information in master.dbo.sysdatabases, but itlooks very cryptic.Any help appreciated, thanks,stefan
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Jul 20, 2005
Hello,I am trying to check the integrity of SQL database. The 'problem' withSQL server is that it's fixing the DB automatically after restore so Ineed a way to do it offline, much like using eseutil on Exchangedatabases.Thanks in advance.
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Mar 5, 2007
Hi,
I try to restore a database but it pop error said "the database is in use". So, I try to take the database offline so that I can store the database. But it takes me forever (1 hour till now). It is still showing "1 remaining". Do you have any idea why ? Thank you very much in advance!
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Oct 31, 2007
I currently have a very long script that I need to run on several servers through an SSIS package. The issue stems from servers that have one or two databases offline. This causes the script to fail. Is there an easy way to get the script to either run on offline databases or skip those that are offline? Thanks
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Feb 8, 2007
Hi,
I am currently working for a client that is interested in performing some data mining on their customer data. The plan was to build a data warehouse, cubes, RS reports etc. and serve this up over the web.
However, we now have the problem of having to cater for countries with a very low bandwidth where the Reporting Services approach would not deliver the required performance due to the dependency of the solution on the network bandwith.
I am therefore looking into processing offline cubes and copying them over the network as part of the overnight process to a server in the countries.
I noticed that PivotTable Services in 2000 had the CREATE MINING MODEL ...... DDL statement for creating offline mining models.
Is this capability still there with SSAS 2005?
Can anyone post any links to usefull resources on this subject?
Thanks in advance.
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May 19, 2008
I'm going overseas this summer with my laptop and I have to continue working on a project. Unfortunately that laptop only has Windows Vista Home Premium. I can't afford to get the upgrade but am in the position of having to copy a database from the server to my laptop so I can continue working on it. What I need to do is find a way to copy the database over but in the case where the two computers aren't connected over a network. Is this possible? I tried to simply copy the .mdb, but there were permissions errors (of course). Is there a way to do this? It's pretty important that I get it on the laptop one way or another. Thank you!
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