Recovering From A Disaster
Nov 16, 2001
We are having major hardware replaced on our W2000 Adv Server and we
need to be prepared to restore the entire system.
If the hardware fix goes badly, worst case, the plan is to
rebuild the server and then REINSTALL SS7 and
then restore all the databases from tape backups.
My question is, which database(s) should we restore first?
Should we restore master and then proceed to restore the user
databases or restore the user databases first and restore master last?
Thank you in advance.
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May 18, 2000
Can anyone give me assistance on trying to restore my master file. I purposely corrupted my dabase on my test box so that I could work on my recovery process. However, during one of the steps I used the:
restore database Master From
disk= 'c:mssql7ackupmaster.bak'
Command. However, I continue to recieve:
Server:Msg3201, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
'Cannont open backup device 'c:mssql7ackupmaster.bak. Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more details.
Note I am in single user mode and I have not been able to find anything specific in the error log file.
Can some tell me what possible could be the problem. Thanks.
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Apr 6, 2000
Any ideas on how long it should take SQL Server 6.5 running on a 8 Gig RAID 0 array to "recover" a 4 GIG database. I rebooted the machine this morning (seldom ever have any problems with it) and it seems to be taking an awfully long time (15 min so far). I'll let you know what happens in any case.
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Jun 1, 1999
is it possible to recover an existing SQL server? Here is what happened. WNT server 4.0 was corrupted, had no backup, repair did not work. consequently, i had to reformat the C drive and do a clean install of the OS.
my SQL files and user databases were on other drives. can i do a install of SQL server and tell is were the SQL server files (ie., the MSSQLDatamaster.db) are and have it use those files? given that this problem occurred as i tried to backup my SQL server database.
hope you can help or my butt is burned!
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Nov 17, 1999
Help !!!!
How would you fix these two problems.
1. On the window of Enterprise Manger and under the databases, the database shows one of the databases like this manag_dat(recovering)rather than manag_dat. (manag_dat is the name of the database). What could cause the probem and how to fix it?
2. Same position as above, but instead it shows manag_dat (loading). I tried to delete its device and the database. it hang. How would it happen and how to fix it?
Thank you ahead of time
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Mar 15, 1999
I need to recover a database, but unfortunatelly i donīt have any backup... Well, it was not my fault. Anyway, i only have the physical .DAT files of the data and log devices of the database.
Will it work if I create two devices with the same name as the old devices, create a database with the same name as the old database within these devices and then run a full script of my old database, then change the 'phy_name' on the sysdevices to point to where my old dats were, or replacing the current ones with the old ones? If not, will anything else work?
Thanks in advance.
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May 3, 2004
My server crashed i had full back up my .BAK file for every database and i reinstalled a fresh verion of sql server 2000 enterprise and when i comme in enterprise manger to restor the master its telling me i need to be in single user mode what do i do.
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Jul 20, 2005
Any ideas how I can recover a job that has been deleted (?) from SQL7.0 ? We had one which was used on a regular basis which has nowceased to exists. I've spoken to the people responsible for the serverand was met by blank faces (as usual). They have no idea when it wasdeleted, by whom or when. To make matters worse, they don't think theycan get it off the backup set without a major bit of work to theserver. Suprisingly, none of the users noticed that things had stoppedworking.Unfortunately, I needed to do some work on this in preparation for mymonthly meeting with my boss on Monday. Whilst I'm not to blame, I'dlike to understand a little more about any options available to us forrecovery as he will undoubtedly ask when he finds out.I have an old back up on another server, so it's not the end of theworld re-creating it, but I was under the impression it was backed upproperly. Is this normal or have they missed something ?Are there any ways I can recover this ? What can I get done to thebackup to make sure this is backed up properly ?Thanks in advance.Ryan
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Apr 30, 2007
Hi,
I am working on SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio - 2005. While working on the same, the studio got closed automatically and I was not able to save my existing file.
When I try to open the last saved file, it is thowing the following error:
Deserialization failed: The element 'QueryParameter' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2005/01/reportdefinition' has incomplete content. List of possible elements expected: 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2005/01/reportdefinition:Value ##other:*'. Line 277, position 12.
EDIT CODE
Now I am not able to open the file. Please let me know how can I recover the lost file.
Regards
Syed
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Aug 17, 2006
I saw the other thread that is related, but let me give you our circumstances. A drive failed and that drive had the SQL installation and the *.ldf files on it. The MDF files were unscathed.
The drive has been rebuilt and I have reinstalled SQL 2000 SP3A on there (that is what was there before). I have tried attaching the MDF through the GUI and letting it create the log for me. This failed.
I tried sp_attach_single_file_db, but this failed since the db was never dettached.
I tried creating the db again, dettaching it, copying the old (good) MDF file over the newly created one and then attaching (using multiple attach approaches). It knows that the log file and mdf are not matched and won't let me do the attach.
I also found DBCC REBUILD_LOG, but the article in SQL Mag supposes that your instance is still in working order and that there is an entry for the db in sysdatabases. Such is not true in my case.
Can you help? We are trying to get old backup tapes shipped to the site, looking up our Gold Partner contact info, etc., but in the meantime, I am trying to get the data restored even if we lose some transactions.
Thanks for any help!
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May 31, 2000
1) How do I reinstall a fresh copy of the MSDB database (since my current
one is corrupt). Is there any script available?
2) What is the purpose of the MSDB database? Backups and jobs/ Wizards?
Thanks for your help.
Ziggy
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Feb 2, 2000
Our database -SQL Server 7.0 sp1 (NT 4.0 sp5)- is growing at a very fast rate despite the fact that we are deleting old record. It doesn't seem to be recovering disk space for the deleted records. Please let me know if there is a specific setting that can help us recover disk space. )
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Mar 9, 2000
I have a 3GB DB that I was running an update script on. The sript failed and ran out of transaction log space. I expanded it and stopped and restarted SQL. The user DB is now marked as recovering. How long should I wait for it to recover? I don't want to have to restore again and start all over with my script. Please help.
(By the way this is a restored DB)
Thanks.
LC
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Nov 25, 1998
Hi,
Bit of a panic here.. Someone accidentally deleted a database device (and
consequentially the associated databases) from MS Sequel 6.5. I don't have a
backup dump of the databases.
Does anyone know how I restore the device? I have the DAT file and I can
see the data in it if I use a text editor.
Thanks
Jonathan
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Oct 9, 2001
Is there any way to recreate SQL2k cluster recources after someone removed them, which is is quite easy to do in Clustermanager?
We are running testscenarios at the moment with SQL2000Adv on Win2kadv servers. We assume a situation where someone at a client site accidentaly removes one or more of the SQL cluster receources in clustermanager. We can easily re-create the recources manually, but they will not come online. Of course it is always possible to re-install SQL2k on the nodes, but after "accidentaly" removing recources even that seems to be a pain, as the sql2k installer will not uninstall properly or reinstall/overwrite. Usually we get both nodes back up and running after running the uninstaller, cleaning up the registry and reinstalling SQL2k with the previous virtual (sql)server name and all the previous settings.
There must be a more efficient and reliable way to recover from this type of "usererror", but neither technet nor any other site seems to mention anything on a situation like this.
Any thoughts?
Alexander
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Aug 28, 2007
Hello
(SQL Server 2000)
I have databases that appear as "Suspect" in the Enteprise Manager. What can I do to recover them or put them in a normal state?
Thanks a lot.
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Jan 10, 2008
What is the most effecient way to recover a SQL 2000/2005 database to a different server.
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Jul 9, 2007
Is there any way to get the deleted records from LDF or MDF file. Today by accidentally I executed one query and that dropped my table Inbox(table name only) from database. And in that table there was more 4,000 records, all these lost. So anybody can help me how to recover this table records?. Is there any way to get these?
I don't have any backup for this table.
shaji
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Nov 16, 2007
Hi all
I'm a newbie with SQl Server But somewhere i read that SQL server Data can be Recovered through *.LDF files
now i want to know if i open a table in Enterprise-Manager and delete some records through DELETE statement or
manually, is it possible to recover those deleted records or not? if so how?
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
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Jul 20, 2005
I was trying to relocate my transaction log to a bigger drive usingsp_movedevice but I made a mistake in the syntax of the second parameterand put only the path, not the path and the file name.Now my database is marked as "suspect" and I get an error message in my logupon database start up saying that the log file cannot be open.Is there a way to have MS SQL 6.5 "forget" all the logs of this database,create new ones and restart the database? The logs contained nothingimportant, I had truncated them an hour or so before I made my mistake. Ijust want to make sure the data are still usable.When I look at the devices with sp_helpdevice, I can see a log that existand is hopefully in pristine condition and the one that doesn't existanymore.I looked in the archives of various newsgroups but couldn't find somethingthat correspond closely to my situation. I saw something similar but withMS SQL 7.0(http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...om %26rnum%3D4)using sp_attach_db/sp_detach_db. What would be the equivalent with version6.5?Thanks!Charles--Charles-E. Nadeau Ph.Dhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/
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Sep 21, 2006
I am in a big trouble ,
accidently i have issued a DROP DATABASE XXX command in the sql client, thinking its a local server....... The whole 4 months of database database is now dropped.
Please help me , how can i recover the database ....
thanks in advance
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Aug 2, 2007
I accidentally deleted at SQL 2005 database. Is there any way I can get it back? No, there is no backup.
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Feb 23, 2004
Hello,
I have a problem. I am trying to set up a disaster recovery plan and have ran into some problems. Just so you are aware, we have tried setting up replication but it failed since the database does not have primary keys(don't ask--I have no control) and we have tried to set up log shipping but we do not have the Enterprise version of SQL server so that won't work. The database is over 200GB so shipping by tape or transferring full backups across the wire is impractical. So basically my question is - "What other options can we explore for setting up disaster recovery that do not involve 'substantial' expenditures?"
There is a direct connection set up between the off site data store.
Thanks
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May 11, 2000
I have the Master, Msdb and User Database dumps. I want to build another server with the avilable dumps.
Please help me....
Clark
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Oct 1, 2000
I thought I had a good backup of my database, but it turns out my Backup Executive jobs were misconfigured and
my backup backup via MS Backup only grabbed the files that weren't in use. (.bak file)
I re-installed my Server 2000 to fix some other problems and now I've lost all my database. My wife (the MD) is
very upset over losing her schedule, billing info, and all her medical records. Whoops.
Anyway, I have two BAK files from one (and two) days ago, but when I replace them into the database, no data shows up.
The BAK files were created on an NTFS system, which is now running FAT32 - I don't think that should matter?.
Is there any hope or do I start typing?
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Feb 2, 2001
Hi,
A test server I was developing on has died and all of my good work was on it.
However I have a copy of the Data folder containing the folloing files:
Test_Data.MDF
Test_Log.LDF
Is it possible to restore my database from these files?
If so how would I go about it?
Many thanks in advance!
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Dec 23, 2002
I'm looking for something beyond trying to recover databases and/or SQLServer. My group has been tasked with documenting the recovery for 30+ servers that make up our applications infrastructure including SQL, Web, etc. I posted this here as opposed to another forum because I couldn't even find disaster recovery related topics in the other forums.
Our Systems group (Lan, Wan, etc.) isn't really much help at all. Their focus is more on the mainframe and Novell network recovery. Their perspective is that they will get any replacement server back on line in the event of failure but we are on our own from there.
There are three disaster scenarios for which we must plan: 1) A 737 does a nose dive into the Data Center. 2) A hurricane floods the Data Center. 3) A server gets smoked for whatever reason and is no longer useable.
Assume...
- that there were enough survivors to rebuild the network infrastructure at a remote site.
- we have to recover the operating system, additional software, IIS, SQL, applications, etc.
Questions:
What's the best way to capture the server's configuration on an automated basis?
What's the best way to recover the configuration mentioned above?
How do you maintain a current snapshot of any particular server and how do you ensure there's a documented history of the changes?
Does anybody use a centralized backup system? OmniBack, BackupExec?
What's the best/fastest way to get the replacement equipment?
Where else can I look to find this information?
Have I asked all the questions that I should or can you think of one I've missed?
Confused? Ask any questions you wish.
Sidney Ives
Database Administrator.
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Mar 17, 2004
Yikes! I lost my autoloader bakcup device along with my SQL2K Server. I reinstalled Win2k and now can see my RAID partitions where I had SQL server installed, along with all of the files. Since my tape backup is dead, I cannot simply restore from media. I'd like to reinstall SQL Server and then somehow grab the files on the partition and restore all of the data back to where things were. Is this even possible? If so, could someone help me out? I am worried by reading this list that my primary application (Sharepoint) will not be able to be restored because of security issues. Any ideas on that?
I appreciate any help you can provide.
-Den
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Oct 30, 2007
Hi Experts,
I am planning to create a disaster recovery site for my production database server. But I am not able to identify which option to choose. Not sure if I should go with database mirroring or transactional replication.
What are the pros and cons of each option?
Production and disaster recovery site location will be geographically very far.
please help
Regards,
S
Don't sit back because of failure. It will come back to check if you still available. -- Binu
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Feb 25, 2008
I'm looking for a proven method and documenation on recovering a publisher that is also the distributor. I have had problems with subscribers failing and database corruption on subscribtion databases. I do not have any documentation or experience in recovering a publisher that also is it's own distributor. Please point me in the right direction for this and any in house documentation that may not be published to the public would be great.
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Nov 9, 2007
I am using SQL 2000 and have a major issue! I am new to SQL and not sure what to do about the license key being lost due to an update.
Background:
The server was originally loaded with a temp verison of SQL 2000 by the installer of the hardware until the Enterprise Edition arrived on site to insure that all the hardware worked fine. The Enterprise software was loaded onto the system and the license keys were installed. Everything has been working fine for several months. The server has been rebooted a few times after installing the license keys.
Trouble:
I loaded SP2 for Server 2003 and rebooted the server and now SQL thinks it is running the temp version and states that the license key has expired. I tried the suggested solution listed on the site of "upgrading with no changes" and the installation completes but never asks for my license keys. I rebooted the server and it states the samething thing that the temp has expired. It appears that one section can see the keys and another section does not. I have an active database that I do not want to loose but I am stumped on what to do to in order to re-install the license keys.
Any suggestions? Can copy the databases that I have created, uninstall SQL, re-install SQL from CD and then paste back my database? Will the databases restore correctly or is this to simple of a solution?
I have run out of ideas and options in order not to loose the database.
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Nov 24, 2006
I used to have WSS 3.0 Beta version, to update that to B2TR i got a problem and for which i require to reinstall the WSS again. Now I have the old WSS_Content.mdf and WSS_Content.ldf. I want this old site content tranfer to the current one.
How can I restore the data of this Site Content Database to the new one which I have newly created.
The mdf size is 3 gb and the ldf is nearly 8 gb.
Immediate response is highly appretiated.
Regards,
Raj
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May 14, 2001
We occasionally use TruncateTable to delete the contents of a number of tables on our SQL Server 7 database. We then build them anew from an outside source. I am finding that the size of the database (and corresponding backup file) has grown significantly. As I understand it, the space representing the deleted records is retained by the database. I have investigated using various DBCC commands, to no avail. Does anyone have a clue as to how I can recover this lost space? ... Thanking you in advance.
Mike Rosen - Amalgamated Bank
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