Looking at the recovery model on MSDN - was under the belief from it that if you set your database to use the simple recovery model, then when you preform a full back up it would truncate the transaction log file but this doesn't seem to be the case?We aren't looking to do a point in time recovery for this particular databse.
View 7 RepliesI'm trying to clear a database transaction log that has gotten much too large. I backed it up hoping that this would clear the "active" log, but now I just have two copies of a huge transaction log. How do I clear the active log?
Thanks in advance.
Hi
How to clear the Transaction Log of Tempdb?(Other than Restarting the SQL server)
Thanks in Advance
Regards
Magesh
We want to back up our test db (new application) and then put it back on the box. The transaction log is pretty full (600mb), can I clear this file or delete the data in it -- we do not need it since this is all testing data.
Thanks,
anke
If Transaction Log Backup fails due to a conflict could it break the Log Chain?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a scenario where a customer is going to be using Log Shipping to the DR site; however, we need to maintain the normal backup strategy on the current system. (i.e. Nightly Full, Every 6 Hour Differential and Hourly Transaction Log backup)I know how to setup Transaction Log Shipping and Fail-over to DR and backup but now the local backup strategy is going to be an issue. I use the [URL] .... maintenance solution currently.
Is it even possible to do regular backups locally keeping data integrity for your backup strategy with Transaction Log Shipping enabled?
I was able to do windows cluster successfully on vmware but after destroying it and I wanted to rebuild cluster on same nodes with same vmnode as DC.But Clustering kept failing.... and I had to rebuild entire vmnodes ,ISCSI SAN and Clustering from scratch...
How do I get over this problem.I want to manage cluster so it remains stable after failover or even after shut down of VMnodes????
We are troubleshooting a performance problem and the test result is slow the 1st time but the subsequent runs are faster.. Logging out of application and log back in ( connecting to a new database session) did not clear the buffer cache as I thought it would.. When does the database clear the buffer cache? Is it not per database session?
I can issue CHECKPOINT and then run DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS to clear the buffers in the disk. But since we are testing from the application,do we need to run these commands via application code to clear buffer/per database session OR can we run these commands from a management studio session?
We take a full backup in the early morning and hourly transaction log back during the working hours for one database in the production server. The application team made certain changes to the design of the said database in their development server. The backup from the development server was restored to the production server during working hours. After the restoration should we take a full backup before next transactional logbackup? Would the transactional log backup with out a full backup after the restoration of a database be valid?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHello, everyone:
I just heard that for restore purpose, ths full backup and transaction log backup should be from one maintenance plan. Otherwise transaction log backup files cannot be restored after restoring full backup files.
Is it true? Can anyone offer official documents?
In my system, full and transaction backups are from one maintenance plan. Restores are doing fine. I am not sure that ideal is true or not.
Thanks
ZYT
what is the differences between a differenctial backup and transaction log backup?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI neglected to backup the transaction log as part of the process of backing up the database. Now i only have the backup file for the database and no transaction log backup. When i try to do a restore on the database, i get the error on a "tail log missing" message (which i'm assuming is that it's looking for the t-log backup?).
Is it possible to restore or even restore to a new database? I'm only looking to retreive data from 2 tables within the backup file.
Thanks!
SQL Server 2005 on Windows 2003 Server x64.
Is there anyway to clear the procedure cache of a single procedure?
View 9 Replies View RelatedOn the SQL Server the Event Viewer shows the same messages and errors every evening between 22:05:00 and 22:08:00. The following information messages are shown for every database:
"I/O is frozen on database <database name>. No user action is required. However, if I/O is not resumed promptly, you could cancel the backup."
"I/O was resumed on database <database name>. No user action is required."
"Database backed up. Database: <database name>, creation date(time): 2003/04/08(09:13:36), pages dumped: 306, first LSN: 44:148:37, last LSN: 44:165:1, number of dump devices: 1, device information: (FILE=1, TYPE=VIRTUAL_DEVICE: {'{A79410F7-4AC5-47CE-9E9B-F91660F1072B}4'}). This is an informational message only. No user action is required."
After the 3 messages the following error message is shown for every database:
"BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP LOG <database name>. Check the backup application log for detailed messages."
I have added a Maintenance Plan but these jobs run after 02:00:00 at night.
Where can I find the command or setup which will backup all databases and log files at 22:00:00 in the evening?
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?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm looking to schedule a maintenance plan for my databases which I have done.I'd like this database to be copied to another folder and the name altered to include the file name and the current date time stamp.Is this possible in the scheduled maintenance plan?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI scheduled automatic backup process but its only showing backup of the only one .sql file in the backup folder. Other created .sql files are not backed up. Why is it so?
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I have a full backup and transaction log backup strategy for my test server.
My transaction log backup is failing as some user must have run some nonlogged operation. Is there any way to find out what is causing transaction log backup to fail?
Any hint would be appreciated.
I have a problem w/ my Transaction Log Backup. The backup files continues to grow and grow and grow. I have created a new Transaction Log backup through EM, but instead of appending each backup to the existing backup file, I overwrite the existing backup file. My gut feeling is that this is not right. If it isn't, then how can I continue to backup my TL's w/o having the file growing at an astronomical pace?
I would appreciate your help
Chris
Is there a possibility to recover a database up to the point of failure ?
I have a database with a primary datafile and a transaction logfile.
I have backup of the database and transaction log backups upto an hour before failure. But I also want to recover one hour data which is in the transaction log.
I have lost my primary datafile.
Is there a way to recover ?
How do I backup the transaction log before starting restore ?
Thanks,
Bala
Hi friends,
I have set up the Transaction Log backup on one server he was running fine for few hour later he failed for two times and then after full backup it is running fine.
Can any one of shed some light on this issue.
Error:
Cannot allow BACKUP LOG because file 'ZTVData' has been subjected to nonlogged updates and cannot be rolled forward. Perform a full database, or differential database, backup. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 4213) Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013). The step failed.
Thank You,
Paul T
Hi!
Does the command,
backup log <database name> to <backup device name>
clear the inactive portions of the transaction log?
Praveena
I've set up 4 database maintenance plans for my databases. 1 for all system databases, and the other three for specific databases. they back up to a network drive on another computer.
The plans are set up to do complete backups every day and then transaction log backups every 15 minutes.
The complete backups work fine. They all create the backups on the network drive. The transaction log backups are only created for one of the databases though. All the others report "successful completion" but they don't actually create the backup file. I looked at the report created and it never has a step that backs up the transaction log. I compared the T-SQL code from the one transaction backup job that works to one that doesn't and all the commands are exactly the same (aside from different directories to save in to, job numbers, etc).
Does anyone have any idea what is going on? I've deleted the maintenance plans and recreated them to no avail. I've also created an on the side differential backup that works as well.
Any help would be appreciated
Bob
I am using ArcserveIT 2000 SQL Agent to backup my SQL Server 7.0 db. I perform a full backup (with archive on) every day. ArcserveIT backsup both database and transaction log files. 'Truncate log on chkpt' is set to False in the databases. If I don't use SQL server's backup command with trunc. log on chkpt to true, will the transaction log file ever get trimmed? Does a third party backup utility like ArcserveIT will do something similar to 'backup command' in SQL server 7.
Anyone using ArcserveIT SQL Server 7.0 Agent, please comment.
Thanks
Good afternoon,
Has anyone ever had an issue with a Transaction Log being backed up but not truncating? We’ve been having trouble with this and now have to truncate the log manually. Any information at this point will be useful. Thank you.
Hi,
Can anybody help me in,
When to take backup of transaction log and how to schedule it?
My database is in Full recovery mode with two log files.
I am doing mass insertion, then i am getting the following error
"The log file for database 'nags' is full. Back up the transaction log for the database to free up some log space."
I have taken backup of transaction log. now also it is giving the same error.
Any suggestions how to handle to this situation, to prevent the above error.
Thanks in advance.
Nageswararao.
What is the proper way to backup a transaction log for a database whose name contains a space. (I.E. DBname = Database Name). I am trying to execute a command, but it does not like the space in the database name. I have also tried wrapping the name in single quotes and parethesis to no avail.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow often do you guys back up your trans logs, every 10mins, 30mins or hourly???
Just curious
We have a couple of databases in same server, and I set up the job on SQL server agent for backup transactions, a few dbs log backup successful, but a few are always failed, no error message be given, only can check the report --- "Backup can not be performed on database 'Agrdev'. This sub task is ignored ....," I checked all db property and set up , couldn't find out what's going on. Did anyone can help me?
View 8 Replies View RelatedHi,
I have error when i backup the transaction log of master and msdb database.
I think there is an error because the model of this database is simple.
can i modify the model and write full ?
I have another question,
I have a db with 1 db file of 11Go, i have to create secondary files or not.
Hi,
If i have enabled truncate log on checkpoint option then --
1. Can i take transaction log backup?
2. Can i use point-in-time recovery for the Datbase.
can somebody help me on this. please explain the concept also.
Thanks in advance.
-- Chetan
How to schedule backup of transaction log???
View 2 Replies View RelatedHello!!I am relatively new to SQL and am having a problem. I have taken overa SQL 2000 db that did not have any backup plans scheduled for it. Icreated a maintenance plan that backs up the database every night andanother plan that backs up the system databases once a week. I ranboth these jobs successfully, but when I created a third plan tobackup the transaction log it fails with the following message:Executed as user: NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM. sqlmaint.exe failed. [SQLSTATE42000] (Error 22029). The step failed. I then executed the followingstatement: sp_grantlogin 'NT AuthoritySystem' which did not work.I still do not understand why I can't backup the log? The databasebacks up fine with no errors so it can't be a permission thing and Icreated the job with a maintenance plan so it has to be in fullrecovery mode. Right? How do I tell? Thank you for all yourresponses!!NS
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