Recovery :: Log Or Differential Backup Cannot Be Restored Because No Files Ready To Roll Forward
Oct 30, 2015
I missed the ability to restore based on a time (10/23 6pm) due to our purge cycle in our production environment, but I was able to obtain the 10/18 full backup, the 10/23 differential backup, and the 4, 10/23 trans. log backups. I moved all the fore mentioned files to a staging environment, and now I am trying to restore all of the files to 10/23 6pm and I get :
"The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward" error.
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Feb 17, 2014
1. Created a database with a couple of tables with no data.
2. Taken a full database backup - db.bak.
3. Deleted the database.
4. Restored the database db.bak and filled the tables with some data.
5. Taken log backup - dblog.trn
BACKUP LOG <dbname> to DISK='D:Demodblog.trn' WITH NO_TRUNCATE, INIT
6. Dropped the database again.
7. Restored the database again from db.bak.
8. But when I am trying to restore log file dblog.trn on this database, i keep getting this error :
The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally.
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Nov 16, 2015
I have a database that is just over 1.5GB and the Full backup that is 13GB not sure how this is since we have compression on for full backups and my other full backups are much smaller than there respective databases...Now my full backup is taken every Sunday night and the differentials are taken every 6 hours after the full backup. Now I have been thrown into this DBA role with little to no experience just what I have picked up and read. So my understanding of backups are limited but what I think I understand is that we take a full backup and the differential only captures what changes in the database so my question is why is my database 1.5GB but my differential is 15.4GB? I have others database that are on the same instance and don't seem to have this problem. I also just noticed that we do not rebuild the index before a full backup like we do on other instances...
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Jun 30, 2015
I have a small, ~10GB SQL 2008 R2 database, that was setup with simple recovery. Â We do full backup each night at midnight when no one is using the database. Â Is there any problems with doing differential backups during the day when users may be writing to the database? Â Could I even do hourly differential backups while users are using the database? Â I'm conflicted about switching over to full recovery mode and using transaction logs to have the ability restore data between backups. Â If I can do a couple daily differential backups while users are using the database during the day, in addition to our nightly full backups, Â than I Â live with simple recovery mode. Â
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My Database has many Dead lock issues,Will this Dead locks  cause Differential database failure ?.
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Feb 4, 2004
When a new scheduled job is created for a Differential backup, the file specified in the Destination folder is automatically created by SQL Server. After the first time the job runs, is there a way to configure SQL Server to give each Differential file a unique name, including the timestamp (i.e. similar to Full Backup jobs)? I noticed my only options are 'Append to File" and "Overwrite Existing File." If I choose to enable "Backup Set Expiration," the backup job will not run, because it wants to append/overwrite the filename specified.
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Dec 6, 2007
Hi,
I'm making backups of the database by first making a full backup and then differential backups. The differentials are backed up to separate files.
Restore of the full backup works fine, but I can't restore a differential backup. In Management Studio Express, I first do a full backup restore with option NO RECOVERY and then try to restore a differential backup. But this failes with the message:
"This differential backup cannot be restored because the database has not been restored to the correct earlier state."
Is it possible to restore a differential backup that is backed up to a separate file?
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Oct 11, 2011
I have an old sharepoint db (SQL Server 2000 Standard edition). What I need to try to recover is the data in log backup files from the docs table. I need to see if there is a way to get any data in the log backups from columns dirname, leafname and content. The column content is an image type which old documents (word, excel...). I don't have a full log chain since the last full restore so any data I can get out of the logs is better than nothing. I really just need to get the image files stored in the column content and place them in a shared directory for the users and let them see what they can use.
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Mar 31, 2008
Hi
I have an sql server 2005+sp2 instance and a db on it.
I have create a database master key (specifying a password so it WILL NOT get encrypted by the server master key) on my database and backed it up
CREATE MASTER KEY ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'test'
go
BACKUP MASTER KEY TO FILE = 'c:Genesis_DBMasterKey.key' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'test'
Then I have created a asymmetic key without specifying a password therefore the key will get encrypted bt the database master key.
CREATE ASYMMETRIC KEY card WITH ALGORITHM = RSA_512
And then for test I run
DECLARE @Encryptvalasym varbinary(MAX)
SET @Encryptvalasym = EncryptByAsymKey(AsymKey_ID('card'), 'EncryptedData')
SELECT @Encryptvalasym
SELECT CONVERT(varchar(max),DecryptByAsymKey(AsymKey_ID('card'),@Encryptvalasym) )
And the result is OK.
Problem: as a recovey plan if I restore the database on the same or other instance (althogh the asymmetic key is part of backup) the decrypt doesn€™t work.
I have tried to create a bank database restore tha databse master key and recreate the asymmetric key, but I€™m afraid I€™m still not having any luck with it, as it does not decrypt.
My main issue is that is any case if I have to recover the database , how do I have to make sure that encryption/Dycription will work?
Thanks
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Oct 6, 2006
I assume that MS has a directive never to change the format of SSIS raw files...
However, what I'd like to know is that when I'm planning long-term systems where I've got backups of data (staging, logging, whatever) using raw files, can I be assured that future versions of SSIS will be able to read those raw files?
I assume a certain level of backwards compatibility, however, I'm just curious if I should think about building processes into my projects that would factor that in and rebuild raw files everytime a new/major release of SSIS comes out.
Phil
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Feb 19, 2015
Using Ola Hallengren's scripts I do a full backup of a database on a Sunday. Then differential backups every 6 hours and log backups every hour. I would like to keep a full week of backups based off the full backup done on Sunday. Is there a way for me to clear out the diff and log folders after the successful full backup on Sunday nights?
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Jul 19, 2007
Hi
I am using the Simple recovery model and I'm taking a weekly full backup each Monday morning with differentials taken every 4 hours during the day.
On Wednesday afternoon, a programmer ran a process that corrupted the db and I had to restore to the most recent differential. It was 5pm in the afternoon and a differential backup had just occured at 4pm. No problem, I figured.
I restored the full backup from Monday morning and tried to restore the most recent differential backup. The differential restore failed. Since I had used T-SQL for the initial attempt, I tried using Enterprise Manager to try again.
When viewing the backup history, I see my initial full backup taken on Monday plus all the differentials. BUT, on closer inspection, I noticed another full backup in the backup history that was taken early Tuesday morning. I can't figure out where this Tuesday morning full backup came from. It wasn't taken by me (or scheduled by me) and I'm the only one with access to the server. My full backups are usually named something like HCMPRP_20070718_FULL.bak. This erroneous full backup was named something like HCMPRP_03a_361adk2k_dd53.bak. It seemed like it was a system generated name. Not something I would choose. To top it off, I could not find this backup file anywhere on the server and when I tried to restore using this full backup, it failed.
Does anyone have any clues as to where this full backup might come from? Does SQL Server trigger a full backup on its own if some threshold is reached?
I ended up having to restore using the differential taken just before this erroneous full backup and lost a day of transactions.
Any insight is greatly appreciated.
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Oct 6, 2015
When I execute the following transaction log backup TSQL in SSMS
BACKUP LOG ProductDBÂ
TO DISK = 'D:Database_BackupTransProductDB.trn';
I get this error:
Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Cannot open backup device 'D:Database_BackupTransProductDB.trn'. Operating system error 21(The device is not ready.).
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.
I also have a daily database backup job that puts the backup file under this directory.
D:Database_BackupData
So I changed the path to this and it still fails.
BACKUP LOG ProductDBÂ
TO DISK = 'D:Database_BackupDataProductDB.trn';
However if I change it to this path, it works:
BACKUP LOG ProductDBÂ
TO DISK = 'MyServerDataProductDB.trn';
This turns out to be the path I used a few weeks back when I backed up the log for the very first time. Â But I now wanted to store my transaction log backups in D:Database_BackupTrans. Â
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Jun 13, 2007
what is the differences between a differenctial backup and transaction log backup?
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Jun 6, 2007
Hi,
Using SQL Server 2005, we have a 2.8Gb database under the Simple recovery model. The database contains ~50M rows and each night ~60k rows are loaded(appended) to the database by a SSIS task.
We configured a Maintenance Plan which is executed once a week to perform a full backup of the database. The resulting backup file is ~2.8Gb, as expected.
We also configured another Maintenance Plan which is executed every day, a few hours after the SSIS task is executed, to perform a differential backup. To our surprise, the resulting backup file is about the same size as the full backup, ~2.8Gb when it should only be a few MB (only 60k rows are added to the database)
When we launch the "Restore Database" wizzard we clearly see the different backup set, Full and Differential but they all have about the same size (same for the physical backup file on disk).
Is there anything we are missing, why are the differential backup that big?
Thanks for any advice.
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Feb 5, 2008
Hello!
I am trying to find out name of the backup file database was restored from (I am restoring from DISK), something similar to physical_device_name in backupmediafamily. restorehistory doesn't have this information.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Igor
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I have been experiencing "Specified cast is not valid" error while restoring backup of DB. Version of SQL server management tool from which I am taking the backup is "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP1) - 10.50.2500.0 (Intel X86) Jun 17 2011 00:57:23 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Express Edition with Advanced Services on Windows NT 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (WOW64) (Hypervisor) ". And restoring to the same version tool.
I have tried all the workarounds like TSQL, Upgrade the version of restoring DB to higher version, MDF and LDF files generation. But they are not working.
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Feb 1, 2007
Hi All,I have to a few backups restored from a set of backup files. Thebackup files have been removed from the drive because of some storageconstrains...For some data comparison reasons, I need to figure out the actual dateof these backup files that is used to restore these databases. Isthere any system table I can query to figure the actual backup timesof these databases...Any help will be much appreciated.. Thanks in advance.- Aravin
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Apr 24, 2007
According to BOL, you can initialize a transactional subscriber by restoring the Publisher's backup to the Subscriber DB. But any timestamp columns must be converted to binary(8) and indexed views must be converted to tables. But are there other things you must do? What about identity columns? Triggers?
Thanks
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May 6, 2006
Hello
I have restored a SQL 2000 backup of my database, ever since my web applications are unable to use any of the stored procedures.
I get the following error:
Could not find stored procedure 'xxx'.
If I use enterprise manager and go to the procedures tab the procedure appears there.
Any ideas what is up?
PS: The username has been changed, before the backup it was "user1" now its something else. For some reason it still shows that the procedure object is owned by "user1". Could this be the problem?
Thanks in advance.
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May 3, 2001
SQL 7.0 SP1 on NT 4.0 EE
Thru maintenance plan I backup my DBs every night and the T-Logs every hour.
Now I have to set the option "select into/bulk copy" on one DB.
I schedule the differential backup every 3 hour with option "overwrite existing media", wich is, in my case, one file on disk.
My sequence of T-Logs is valid even if a non logged operations occurs?
If I have to restore this DB can I use the last full backup + the differential backup + all the logs in between?
example:
22.00 full db backup
08.00 t-log
09.00 t-log
10.00 t-log
10.30 diff backup
11.00 t-log
12.00 t-log
13.30 diff backup
14.00 t-log
15.00 t-log
Or my log are unusuable because the non logged operation?
Thank you very much.
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Aug 31, 2001
I trying to created a Differential backup and I get the following error. Can anyone help?
The volume on device 'd:MSSQL7BACKUPCPIDATABKUP.BAK' is not part of a multifamily (RAID) media set. Use WITH FORMAT to form a new RAID set. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3259) Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013). The step failed.
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Sep 19, 2001
I'm trying to create a differential backup job that run hourly and that creates a different differential files. Ext. dbfilename1am, dbfilename2am, dbfilename3am ect... Can I do this with one job? Are do I have to create a differential backup job for each hour?
Thanks
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May 18, 2008
Hi,
I've defined a maintenance plan in SQL2005, which creates a differential backup of a DB daily. Suppose I'm having differential backups from May, 10 to May, 14 but backup files of May 12 and May 13 are lost (deleted unexpectedly). Am I losing some data, if I restore from backup file of May 14?
Thanks & Regards,
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Jul 16, 2007
We have a SQL 2K5 10GB database that, as part of the recovery plan, gets a differential backup every six hours. Log file backups occur every hour, and a full backup is done every 24 hours. Over the weekend, the differential backup produced a 55GB backup file which caused us a lot of issues besides disk space usage (log backups couldnt finish, mirroring broke, etc.). This is also the max growth size that the log file is set to. There are no errors in the ERRORLOG, or in the job history. It's as if the backup was successful, which I assume it was, but the file was sparse.
I should mention that our full backup is typically 10GB, log file backups are typically 100 to 500MB, and the diff backup is generally 1GB to 3GB.
Has anyone experienced this issue before?
What causes it?
How do we resolve it?
Thank you in advance for your help,
Greg
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Sep 17, 2001
I need to replication a server database out side a firewall. But can't change the server configuring for replication, so replication is out. So I wanted to know if I have a full backup of every db send to me every 24hrs. W/ differential every hr, will the restoring process work on the restoring server? Should I restored the full 1st? I'm not sure if the restoring of the Differential will work. Any help on the steps to take, to get this to work with backups & differential will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Reggie
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Jun 14, 2000
Hello,
I'm trying to run a differential backup on our new 7.0 box. It fails with an error message number 3242 "The file on Device 'E:MyFile' is not a valid Microsoft Tape Format backup set."
Why "Tape Format" if I said "Backup database [mydb] to disk"?..
When I run exactly the same query without "Differential" I got a full db backup.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you,
Anastasia.
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Feb 9, 2008
Hi,
Im trying to restore the differential backup,I have to restore the full backup first and then restore the differential backup.Can any body tell me the code for this?
my program is like this
--for fullbackup
if type=D
begin
restore database databasename
from disk=path
end
--for differential backup
else if type=I
???
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Jul 20, 2005
I have recently started receiving failures on a differential backup thatpreviously succeeded. Nothing has changed with the structure of the db.Here is the message, any ideas are welcomed. Thanks.Executed as user: fsafood-netisqlservice. The backup data in'E:SQL_BackupsBiz_SalesBiz_Sales_Diff.bak' is incorrectly formatted.Backups cannot be appended, but existing backup sets may still beusable. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3266) BACKUP DATABASE is terminatingabnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013) Associated statement is notprepared [SQLSTATE HY007] (Error 0) The media family on device'E:SQL_BackupsBiz_SalesBiz_Sales_Diff.bak' is incorrectly formed. SQLServer cannot process this media family. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3241)VERIFY DATABASE is terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error3013). The step failed.*** Sent via Devdex http://www.devdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
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Oct 8, 2006
I create a full backup followed by daily differential backup, when I restore database from the fifth or later differential item, I get the following Error Message:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: This differential backup cannot be restored because the database has not been restored to the earlier state. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
It seems that there is an error when the fifth differential backup occurred, It's a disaster, how can I do, help!
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