Restoring Master Db To Secondary Server- Service Unable To Restart
Oct 6, 2006
Hi,
I'm having trouble with restoring the master db on w2k3 sql2000 sp3a to a Secondary Standby server.
Firstly, I place the server in Single user mode and then restore the master db. The sql server then tries to restart sql services but immediately stops as soon as it starts up.
We have been having a problem with on of our servers, applications connecting to it are experiencing poor performance, even though the server is only running at a peak of 50%.
The odd thing is that after a sql service restart we couldnt connect at all on the SQL port. We were only able to re-connect after rebooting the actuall box. Is there anything that can be done about this? Its strting to look like a network related problem instead of SQL
I noticed when I restore a master database to a server other then the one which created the backup of master, SQL Server contains the following three local security groups that were defined on the source server. The problem is these groups are "local" and do not apply to the server where master was restored.
If you then backup the master database on an instance named MARKETING_PROD and restore it to MARKETING_TEST, the security folder on MARKETING _TEST will now contain the following three entries.
These entries would be invalid because no such server exists and therefor no such local groups exists. There appears to be no Microsoft documentation explaining how to handle these groups when restoring master from one server to another. My assumption is that whenever restoring master to another server you must drop these three groups and add the correct corresponding groups along with the appropriate permissions. I don't understand why SQL Server would not rebuild this information for you during a restore.
Hi guys, right now I am having insufficient hard disc space at the secondary server (Mirror side) due to the large db that I have. Therefore, I get a new HDD on the server (Assuming located at drive G) and would like to shift the current mirroring db to that new drive. Is it possible for me to do that ? Hope able to get any suggestion from here ASAP. Thanks.
I noticed that after a SQL AlwaysOn failover, one of the DB in the secondary replica is stuck in Restoring state. The primary replica shows that it is in a synchronized state. These are the error logs from SSMS. How do I trace the cause of the problem?
Error: 5901, Severity: 16, State: 1. Nonqualified transactions are being rolled back in database for an AlwaysOn Availability Groups state change. Estimated rollback completion: 0%. This is an informational message only. No user action is required Error: 18400, Severity: 16, State: 1.
One or more recovery units belonging to database failed to generate a checkpoint. This is typically caused by lack of system resources such as disk or memory, or in some cases due to database corruption. Examine previous entries in the error log for more detailed information on this failure.
The background checkpoint thread has encountered an unrecoverable error. The checkpoint process is terminating so that the thread can clean up its resources. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
Now, I checked and verified that my backup version of SQL Server is the same as the version installed on the computer I'm restoring too.
I have SQL Server on a production machine that I backed up and want to test a full restore on a dev machine to make sure it will work when I need it to.
Now that I've run the restore command on my tape backup and go to restart the SQL server service I receive:
Configuration block version 0 is not a valid version number. SQL Server is exiting. Restore the master database or reinstall.
I'm afraid I don't understand why this is happening. If the builds are the same, then shouldn't restoring the MASTER database have worked normally and I'd be able to restart the service now?
I have recently changed my NT password and since then one of my machines has not been able to start MSSQL server. When I re-boot the machine it lets me know that it was unable to start MSSQL server. If I right click on the SQL server group in EM and try to manually start the service, it tells me that I have a login failure. I don't understand how changing my NT password would affect one machine and not the others. When I right click on the "edit SQL service registration properties" tab, all of the machines are using the NT password selection as opposed to the SQL server authentication password. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated
I have got the error “a network related or instance specific error occurred sql server 2012 “.I have enabled tcp/ip, restarted the services. The sql server service is getting stopped even after the manual restart. I have checked in event viewer and I noticed a error. Here is the error...The log scan number (43:456:1) passed to log scan in database ‘model’ is not valid. This error may indicate data corruption or that the log file (.ldf) does not match the data file (.mdf). If this error occurred during replication, re-create the publication.
I have a service that depends on SQL Server service. Basically we make sure that our service only starts after SQL server service started. Unfortunately this dependency does not ensure that database is available.
Basically I observed in Application log that SQL server reports that it started to listen on a port. And then I see that recovery process started. As I understand SQL server is not available while database is in the recovery state.
Note: I might have not used a correct terminology to describe SQL server recovery process as I don't have access to Application log with the exact message at the moment. I can verify the message if necessary.
Because SQL server service is started our service starts and attempts to connect to the database. Service fails to connect to database, because of the restoration process. Once restoration is done service connects successfully.
I observed that restoration process starts every time machine is rebooted. It only takes a few minutes to run, but it is enough to generate a number of error messages in event log about failed SQL connections.
My first question is: Is it normal for database to enter into recovery state every time machine is rebooted?
My second question is: If it is a normal operation, is there any way to detect that SQL server is truly available, so our code does not have to try retry establishing connection many times
I have a server attached to a SAN, all user db's are on the SAN, master, tempdb, and msdb are on the local machine. We will be replacing the machine (not the SAN) to a newer sql server. Our plan was to create the new server with same name, deattach current user db's,backup master and msdb, then connect new server with same name an IP to SAN. I then wanted to restore the master and msdb db's to the new machine, and attach the user db's. We are running log shipping to a stand-by server in this configuration. I was thinking I could let last tran log backup and copy occur, and then let the last restore happen on the standby. I would then shut down the agent. Should I not be able to restore the MSDB and master to the new server (as long as all file folder locations are the same) and be ready to go? Or are there issues when restoring the Master and MSDB to a new server from a different server.
we had activity last night we need to truncate Transactional Logs we pressed Restart button to initiate service , but it stopped successfully and failed to start the SQL Server service.We did not find anything find anything unusual in log file. Please confirm are we facing any bug or needing any fixes to installed on the server.Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Service Pack 1 ( 64bit)
I'm trying to rebuild from a meltdown. I'm using disk backup files. Icould have sworn that I had SQL Server 2000 SP3 installed on the oldmachine, but maybe not.With SP3 installed, I get a message along the lines that the restorecan't be done because the backup was created using server version134218262 and this server is version 134218488.I've searched the documentation and can't find any reference to thoseversion numbers.In any case, I thought SQL Server 2000 could restore backups createdon any SP level to any SP level.Any ideas?--Regards.Richard.
moving to a new sql server box because of a problem with the SAN its connected to. started my named instance in single user mode and restored master. sqlserve.exe -c -m -s ovops now the instance won't start. tried starting it with the -t3608 switch.. won't start!! Its because my drive configuration is different on the new server than it was on the old server, I cannot start the instance because it is expecting model, msdb, temdb and all of the user databases on drives that don't exist?? what can I do?????
I am new to this environment and was asked to ensure that the transaction log shipping for SQL 2005 on W2K3 boxes is working properly. I noticed the db's on the secondary server are show "Restoring..." I am not sure if these were set up in No Recover Mode or Standby Mode. I have no access to the secondary db's. I get an error message when trying to access them (error 927). Monitoring was not set up initially and as you may or may not know can't be turned on after the fact...unless you delete the job and start over.
My question is is "Restoring..." normal and what does it indicate?
I have restored the master db in single user mode.
Processed 440 pages for database 'master', file 'master' on file 1. Processed 3 pages for database 'master', file 'mastlog' on file 1. The master database has been successfully restored. Shutting down SQL Server. SQL Server is terminating this process.
I removed single user mode parameter(-m;)..When I start SQL Server in configuration manager getting below error .The request failed or the service did not respond in a timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details
I have restored the master db in single user mode.
--- Processed 440 pages for database 'master', file 'master' on file 1. Processed 3 pages for database 'master', file 'mastlog' on file 1. The master database has been successfully restored. Shutting down SQL Server. SQL Server is terminating this process. ---
I removed single user mode parameter(-m;)
When I start SQL Server in configuration manager getting below error
--- The request failed or the service did not respond in a timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details --
i have created a new login in primary server and provided dbowner permission to primary db.how do i transfer this login to secondary server and assign the same permission to secondary db ?
if you can restore a database to Server B using Server A as the service. Meaning we would issue the command on Server A but somehow point to Server B as where we want the restore to happen.
The backup file would be in a location independent of both servers.
I am having trouble with a linked server using MSDASQL. I'm connecting to a PostgreSQL database and pulling over data. This process has been working fine.
In trying to pull data from a different client database (same schema), I received an error that the MSDASQL couldn't read the column names.
The actual problem I want help on is that after this happens, I am no longer able to make valid connections to any of my Linked Servers using MSDASQL. The only way I can get my other linked servers to work again is to restart the SQL Service. Usually this is impossible for me to do because of the number of active users.
Two questions:
1) Is there another way to restart a more targeted service or sub-set to reset MSDASQL connections, and clear out my problem?
2) Any idea why I'm getting this error connecting to PostgreSQL on a large dataset when it worked fine for a small dataset using the same linked server? "The provider reported an unexpected catastrophic failure."
Every so often I get an error when I pull up an ASP.NET 2.0 site using SQL Express. It tells me that the login failed. If I go into the server's administrative tools > services and restart SQL Express and then refresh the site, it works just fine. Is this some sort of bug or memory issue? Does the application need to connect every so often or end up falling out somewhere?
I have a SP SQL server that uses Handshake for the web parts. I am getting an error on SharePoint about 'An error occurred during Service Master Key Decryption' inside the web parts of the page, everything else comes up, from what I have researched MS says go under SQL Configuration Manager and change the service account. Is this the correct course of action for this type of error? I am just having a hard time believing that changing the engines service account will stop this issue, this account is used on several SQL server with no issues.
Iam planning to move the production server from one server to another. Can any one tell me how to do the migration of the master,model and msdb database. Help in this regard is highly appreciated.Is it ok if I do the dts for these three databases Thanks Naveen.
In SQL 7 Books Online, the suggested method for disaster recovery is to restore the master database along with msdb and user databases.
I am testing this and have an issue restoring the master database. I start SQL in single user mode connected as sa. Using Enterprise Manager to initiate the restore I get the following error:
Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState:01000) ConnectionTransact (GetOverlappedResult()) Connection broken.
This stops SQL Server, and prevents subsequent connections and the only fix is to rebuild the master database.
Any ideas?
Although user databases can be recreated and restored without restoring the original master, configuration, security and user logon information is lost without it.
HELP We are preparing Disaster recovery plans, and I need to recover the SQL servers. When testing this, I have run REBUILDM, and then set sql to single user and attempted restore of master. I receive error messages: "2001-11-16 15:36:24.33 spid6 Getpage: bstat=0x9, sstat=0x1, cache 2001-11-16 15:36:24.34 spid6 pageno is/should be: objid is/should be: 2001-11-16 15:36:24.34 spid6 (1:988)/(1:988) 6/30 2001-11-16 15:36:24.84 spid6 ... IAM indicates that page is NOT allocated to this object 2001-11-16 15:36:24.88 spid6 Error: 605, Severity: 21, State: 1. 2001-11-16 15:36:24.95 spid6 Error: 3151, Severity: 21, State: 0 2001-11-16 15:36:24.95 spid6 The master database failed to restore. Use the rebuildm utility to rebuild the master database. Shutting down SQL Server.."
Subsequent attempt cause the same, UNLESS i reapply SP2 (the version running when the Master was backed up)