I am facing the Database recovery problems sicne I have lost my MSDB db , only i have the Complete db backup and transactional backup.
How do i can recover the database since i don't have the MSDB database
My scenario -
-Dev server lost all its raid drives (which included user data/log files and ALL backups)
-Raid drives were removed from server, so we could try and recover the data (not sure why they had to remove them)
-Recreating the user db's isn't an issue, but I REALLY need to retrieve the jobs from the MSDB (developer was working on dts package for the last 2 months, but didn't check it in to VSS)
-Since the System DB's (model, master, msdb) were installed on the C drive, I was able to recover their mdf/ldf files.
So we build an new server and recreated the user db's.
How do I go about getting the jobs data from the msdb database?
I've tried the following -
Started SQL server with the -T3608 and was able to detach the MSDB database, but when I go to reattach using the mdf/ldf files from the other server I get the following error message.
Error 5172: The header for the file 'C:mssqldatamsdbdata.mdf' is not a valid database file header. The PageAudit property is incorrect
I've been doing some research and found a lot of great articles on how to RESTORE (from backup - dont have) or Rebuild (wipes out the data I'm looking for) the MSDB, but not how to replace it with only the ldf/mdf files....
Any idea's would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
PS - All backups are now being copied to another server (lesson learned)
Hi all:
In order to test database restore, I create a backup driver and puporse delete one table, then I try to restore my databse use backup, but the delete table donot show up.
Thank you
I work on sql server 2000.
Is it possble to recover just one table from the database backup ???
I am new to this.
Please let me know.
thanks
Hi
I have a question concerning backup / restore / recover of a MS-SQL-Server-Database.
Following configuration exists:
MS-SQL-Server running on NT
OS, Server located on a mirrored Raid 0 Disk -> C:
Transactionlog-Files (.ldf) on the same physical mirrored Disk -> E:
Database-Files (.mdf) located on a separate pyhisical Disk (Disk-Set, Raid 5) -> D:
I take a full backup every night of all databases, no Transaction-Log backup is made during a day (never)
Assuming following situation:
During a day one Database became corrupt. The physical-file (.ldf) of corrupted database is still accessible
on Drive E:
1. Step: I make a copy of the .ldf-File and put it on a secure place or in an other directory
2. Step: I restore the DB from the last full backup
3. Step: ???? How is it now possible to recover from the physical available .ldf-File? I know it should be
possible but I don't now how.
Has anybody tips or suggestion or has someone ever had a similar situation? Feedback would be appreciated.
Kind regards
Gabi
Hello, everyone:
Does any body have the experience to execute data warehouse backup/recover? What I want to know is how to backup/recover database in data warehouse and cubes.
Thanks.
ZYT
I ran into a problem today where I had to pull a backup file from an older tape. The file was originally is a backup that was stored in a device like :
EXEC sp_addumpdevice
'disk', --type
'c2000_BackupDevice', --logical name
'\UNCPathackupFile.bak' --physical location
I put the file from the tape on a File Server and then tried to create a new backup device pointing to the file. That's easy enough, but when I try to restore from it I get an device error saying it's offline.
How can I get that device attached to my server and then extract the backup files stored inside it?
Please advise b/c this is an interesting problem I hadn't anticipated and it argues that I should change my backup strategy .
Thanks for any advice/experience you can provide,
alex8675
I created a new database and want to recover data from a backup this script
use master
go
restore database new
from disk='D:
ew.bak'
go
but get an error
Message 3141, Level 16, State 0, Line 1
The database to be restored was named 'ats342'. Reissue the statement using the WITH REPLACE option to overwrite the 'new' database.
Message 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
I asked this question before but never received a decent answer. When a restore fails, what are the steps to re-start the restore? This should be a very common issue and for the life of me I have been unable to find it in BOL or the MS site! Please let me in on the secret!!
Thanks
Can I tell from the MSDB tables if a particular db backup was successful? SS2000.
Thanks,
Michael
I'm getting "Executed as user: SPIESQLService. sqlmaint.exe failed. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 22029). The step failed." on the TRN backup portion of the maintenance plan for the msdb and model databases. On review of files created it's clear that the msdb trn log backup is failing, but there's no other error to indicate the underlying problem.
Suggestions?
TIA,
Al
Our sysadmin accidentally uninstalled SQL Server started to panic and reinstalled. Thankfully the data/transaction files to our important databases were still present and I simply reattached them but our DTS packages our gone.
However, we've done weekly backups of the msdb database. How do I get the DTS jobs out of these backups?
In one off my production box, we are notable to take a backups of MSDB . When i look at the error, it is failing locate allocation unit ID.. complete error as below
Msg 2533,Sev 16,State 1, Line 36 : Table error : Page (1:111720 ) allocated to object id 110623437, index ID 1, Partition ID 72057594043432960, alloc unit ID 72057594044874752 (type-inrow data) was not seen. This page is invalid or may have an incorrect alloc unit ID in its header.[SQLSTATE 42000]
Due this failure, we are unable to take the backup of MSDB database and our integrity check and reindex jobs also failured with the same.Also, I could see events of I/O issues with underlaying hard dirve with following name
DeviceHarddisk0DR0,has a bad block.
1. I dont no what could happen if restart my server, Question is: Does it recognize MSDB during server statup.
I have been researching on how to cleanup four backup system files located in the MSDB database. I currently have approximately 1 million rows in each of these tables which is making my MSDB database to be 4 gig in size. I cannot find any instructions on how to gracefully clean these tables up or what to do to keep the number of rows down in these tables. The tables are backupfile, backupmediafamily, backupmediaset, and backupset. Thanks.
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the path its backingup to is:
(FILE=1, TYPE=PIPE: {'.pipedbasql70dbagent0s0'}).
Thank you in advance
Hello,
We have a self-written procedure to restore transaction logs on a standby server (Sql Server 2000 sp4)
We do this by joining 2 msdb tables, to find out which backups have been performed: backupmediafamily and backupset.
Sometimes backups are NOT registred in table msdb..backupmediafamily.
Underneath 2 examples.
OK- underneath queries shows the time the backup was created in the physical_device_name; joined with media_set_id
99% shows these correct data
select media_set_id, physical_device_name from backupmediafamily where media_set_id = 258716
media_set_id physical_device_name
258716 H:Mssql2000MSSQLBACKUPPAPPS10_tlog_200701010030.TRN
select media_set_id, backup_start_date , backup_finish_date, database_name from backupset where media_set_id = 258716
media_set_id backup_start_date backup_finish_date database_name
258716 2007-01-01 00:30:08.000 2007-01-01 00:30:08.000 PAPPS10
NOT ok
select media_set_id, physical_device_name from backupmediafamily where media_set_id = 376467
media_set_id backup_start_date backup_finish_date database_name
376467 2007-02-17 09:00:14.000 2007-02-17 09:00:14.000 PDBTIME
376467 2007-10-31 19:15:05.000 2007-10-31 19:15:05.000 PJAVA
select media_set_id, backup_start_date , backup_finish_date, database_name from backupset where media_set_id = 376467
media_set id physical_device_name
376467 H:Mssql2000MSSQLBACKUPPDBTIME_tlog_200702170900.TRN
!!! No record for backup transaction log database PJAVA
select media_set_id, physical_device_name from backupmediafamily where physical_device_name like '%PJAVA%2007103119%'
media_set_id physical_device_name
1115347 H:Mssql2000MSSQLBACKUPPJAVA_tlog_200710311900.TRN
1115432 H:Mssql2000MSSQLBACKUPPJAVA_tlog_200710311930.TRN
1115475 H:Mssql2000MSSQLBACKUPPJAVA_tlog_200710311945.TRN
Missing record for backup made on 2007-10-31 19:15 hours !!!!
Hope somebody can help me.
Best regards,
hvdtol
Hello all,
I need help concerning a differential backup on a MSDB database.
I received this message when I tried to backup it
Log from Windows
Event Type: Error
Event Source: SQLVDI
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Date: 8/1/2007
Time: 2:03:37 PM
User: N/A
Computer: XXX
Description:
SQLVDI: Loc=SignalAbort. Desc=Client initiates abort. ErrorCode=(0). Process=9028. Thread=5928. Client. Instance=. VD=GlobalData Protector_(DEFAULT)_msdb_14_00_21.
Log from DataProtector
Normal] From: XXX "(DEFAULT)" Time: XXX
SQL statement:
BACKUP DATABASE [msdb] TO
VIRTUAL_DEVICE = "Data Protector_(DEFAULT)_msdb_06_00_14"
WITH NAME = 'Data Protector: 2007/08/01 0064', DIFFERENTIAL, BLOCKSIZE = 4096, MAXTRANSFERSIZE = 65536;
[Warning] From: XXX "(DEFAULT)" Time: XXX
Error has occurred while executing a SQL statement.
Error message: '<Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000):bdb>
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot perform a differential backup for database "msdb", because a current database backup does not exist. Perform a full database backup by reissuing BACKUP DATABASE, omitting the WITH DIFFERENTIAL option.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.'
Ive tried to do a full followed straight after by a diff but doent help.
Thank you for your help
What is the best way to restore a database from a folder of backups (including full, diff and log backups) without using the backup history in msdb?
I have a restore process that restores all backups on a regular schedule in order to fully verify their integrity. To do this, I use the backup history in msdb on each server that I'm monitoring. I had a thought the other day that I would be in trouble if I lost msdb. Then my backup history would only be as good as the last backup of msdb.
What I'd like to do is read a folder of backup files and generate a restore script up to a specified time. Would I use RESTORE HEADERONLY to do this? If so, would I use PowerShell to traverse each file in the folder?
Hi,
While backing up our database, I am getting the following message:
Could not insert a backup or restore history/detail record in msdb.dbo.sysbackuphistory or sysrestorehistory. This may indicate a problem with the MSDB database. DUMP/LOAD was still successful. (Message 3009)
Does anybody have any resolution for the same ?
Thanks,
Rajan
Whenever I start my SQL Express 2005 database, I get the following in the logs :
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I'm getting this message on my third automated backup of the transaction logs of the day. Both databases are in full recovery mode, both successfully backed up at 01.00. The transaction logs backed up perfectly happily at 01:30 and 05:30, but failed at 09:30.
The only difference between 05:30 and 09:30's backups is that the log files were shrunk at 08:15 (the databases in question are the ones that sit under ILM2007, and keeping the log files small keeps the system running better).
Is it possible that shrinking the log files causes the database to think that there hasn't been a full database backup?
Thanks
Jane
Is there a way to recover the database without defining a device to restore from?
Restore Database TestDB With Recovery
MTmace
Hi,
By mistake i've damaged my .mdf file and i have no backup on this database . However i have the transaction log intact and an older version of the database .
Is it possible to recover the database using the transaction log? How can it be done?
I do not have the transaction log backup, just the .ldf file.
Thanks to anyone who can help me.
How do I begin? I had previously installed the SQL Server 7.0 with NT Authentication and everything was fine until I Rename domain Name and Computer name. I decided to uninstall SQL Server, and then reinstall it.
From this action unable to see my database in enterprise manager. I Rename old domain and computer name again. and reinstall with Upgrade Version. but still same effect. Can anyone help? What do I need to do to get my database to work again? Any input on this will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I had MS SQL installed on my comp.I had to reformat my hard drive due to some problems.There was a db in the sql server which i needed.So i saved the .mdf & .sdf files.Then i installed sql server in the formatted hard drive & pasted the .mdf & .ldf files in the Data forlder in MSSQL folder.But the problem is that even after doing this the enterprise manager doesnt show that database.Can anyone help me with this?Is there any way to recover the database?
Thanks a lot
P.S.- I also have whole of the earlier MSSQL folder present in the earlier program files backed up.Would that help in anyway.
Hello, everyone:
A guy think that the DTS packages can be recoved by restore MSDB database. Is that true? Does anyone have experience on that? Thanks.
ZYT
Hi
I've had a powerfailure, that resulted in I had to scratch my DB server, I've managed to get all the .mdf and .ldf files from the server. On the new server I get a "Error 823: I/O error (torn page)" when I'm trying to attach the .mdf file to the New server.
Both the new and the old server is a win2003 with SQL 2000 SP3
Is there anybody who knows how I can recover the DB?
/Rune
Hello,
Is it possible to restore a SQL 2000 database with data from a transaction log?
I am not sure what happened to my database, all the data in the tables is gone. I generated a db script to create a duplicate database. I saved the .sql file on my local machine, separate from the db server, renamed the database name in the .sql file to a new database. Tested script in query analyzer for syntax, all was fine. Running it at this point would have created a new database with a different name, right?
Now my original database is empty. Can someone please provide me with information on getting my data back. Is there a way of using the transaction log to recover the data.
Thanks
I have changed the roles of primary and secondary servers due to server failure.
Can anyone advise how to revert back to previous main server? Are these any links available?
Hi
I need help to recover database from its MDF & ldf files as my server crahsed today .
BTW i installed afresh copy of MS SQL 7.0
I need to be able to restore the database. Pls reply if
you can help. It would be greatly appreciated.
:( :confused:
is there any way to recover a database? I accidently drop my database .I don't have any backup.
View 5 Replies View RelatedPaul,
Having read your useful insight into the sorts of issues around the corruptions that folk have posted in this forum I'm interested in preparing for the day when one of our servers gets corrupted :-(
Should I expect to be able to:
Restore FULL backup from Before the corruption first happened
Restore all Tranaction log backups since
and would get me back to ground zero?
I'm thinking:
if I do a DBCC CHECKDB once a week, say, immediately after a FULL backup - then if that gives me some error messages I've got last weeks Full backup and a weeks worth of Trans Log Backups to restore - which is OK for a rare disaster.
I apprecaite that the thing that caused the corruption might be a memory or disk fault, which might also have broken the creation of the backup files too - in which case I'm fairly stuffed!
Does a RESTORE do a checksum of somesort that would detect a corruption caused by, say, a memory fault or a disk controller that wrote the block faultily [twiddled some bits, but did not report error]?
In which case continuous restores of backup files to A.N.Other server would discover the moment at which a backup was "known bad"
Am I close?
Thanks
Kristen