SQL 2012 :: Cleanup Of Differential And Log Backups

Oct 15, 2014

I am using Ola Hallegren's scripts to do backups. He uses @Cleanup Time to delete backups older than a certain number of hours. My situation is I do a full backup of a database on Sunday and then I have a few Differentials and then log backups for the rest of the week. When Sunday rolls around again and my full backup is finished, I would like to delete all the differential backups and log backups. Any way that I could accomplish this using Ola's scripts?

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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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I know that the differential backup will only back up information that was changed since the last full database backup, but I have process that I need to implement and need to know if differentials will work.

1. Perform full database backup on Sunday.
2. Perform differential backups Monday thru Friday (twice a day).
3. Perform a database restore on the following Sunday from the backup taken on the previous Sunday.
4. Perform differential backups Monday thru Friday.

At this point I would repeat steps 3 and 4 for the following weeks.

My question is this. Since I didn't actually perform a backup in step 3, but instead performed a database restore, will the differential backup in step 4 backup all of the information changed since step 1??..or will it backup all of the information changed since the restore in step 3? I'm hoping it will only back up the information changed since step 3.

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Hello

I am using SQL 7 database maintenance plans to create full backups for all the databases on my server every night which expire after 7 days, and transaction log backups every hour on some of the databases which also expire after 7 days.

I want to add differential backups but the maintenance plan doesn't allow me to add those. How do I add them, and what naming conventions should I use? I want them to expire after 7 days, but want to backup every 4 hours.

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Hi, I would like to do the following;

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Thru Mainplans you can create differential backups, it doesn't show you the option..
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Hi Folks!

I did a few searches and found some interesting threads but was not able to understand much. :)

I recently jumped from support to a DBA position and am learning about SQL Server 2000.

My dilemma: We have a SQL 2000 server with about 500GB's worth of databases that has some jobs from the app locking up due to tape backups. I am performing Full nightly and 1/2hour transaction SQL backups. We run daily differential and weekly full tape backups. It is taking 14 hours to run tape backups daily, causing some of the application jobs to fail. So to test it, I stopped the tape job to run one night and none of the App jobs failed.

So, I am hoping that if I start running nightly differentials, weekly fulls, and 1/2 hour trans, it should work. However, I am not very familiar with Differential jobs as till today i have been using maintenance plans. :confused:

My ideal scenario is this: Differentials start on Sat morning and stop before the weekly backup runs on Friday and then delete the older file when starting a new one. Is this possible? how?

C= OS, D=Backup (Raid 0), G=Data (Raid 5), E=Logs(Raid5).

Any help would be appreciated, and obviously if I have missed some piece of information, please feel free to ask.

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Can anybody explain why the size of a differential backup in SQL7 is MUCH higher than the one in SQL2000?
Do this test yourself: do a full backup of the pubs database in SQL7 , it will be around 1.5mb, do a differential backup, and it will be 2mb or 4mb.
If you do the same tests in SQL2000 the differential backup is around 200K.
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PLEASE HELP...

WE ARE DOWNLOADING THE BACKUP FILE FROM OTHER BRANCH OFFICE AND THE FILE SIZE IS GROWING LIKE HELL SO I AM CHANGING THE BACKUP POLICY TO DOWNLOAD THE DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP FILES EVERYDAY. BUT EVEN THE FILE SIZE GROWS DAY BY DAY UNTILL WE TAKE THE FULL BACKUP THERE. SO I WANT TO TAKE A DIIFERNETIAL BACKUP AND THEN IMMIDIATELY A FULL BACKUP AT THE REMOTE SERVER END. SO MY NEXT DIFFERNTIAL BACKUP WILL HAVE THE DATA OF ONLY PREVIOUS DAY.
FOR THIS I AM SCHEDULING A JOB WHICH FIRST TAKES A DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP AND THEN IMMIDIATELY FULL BACKUP EVERYDAY AT 12.00AM.
BUT I HAVE A CONCERN.. WHILE TAKING THE DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP ANY TRANSACTIONS THAT ARE TO BE COMMITED WILL NOT COMMIT UNTIL THE DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP COMPLETES. BUT IMMIDIATELY I AM STARTING FULL BACKUP. IS THERE ANY CHANCE THAT A TRANSACTION GETTING COMMITTED IN BETWEEN THESE TWO STEPS. IF SO IS THERE ANY WAY .. NOT RELEASE THE DATABASE UNTILL THESE 2 BACKUPS ARE COMPLETED?? I AM RUNNING IT AS A JOB..
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THANKS IN ADVANCE.. :-)

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I am trying to set up a process where a differential backup is taken daily and applied to another DB. For some reason I cannot get the diff backup to restore. The full DB backup restored fine.

Server: Msg 3136, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
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Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
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Oct 19, 2005

Our production backup schedule is, FULL backup once a month and a DIFFERENTIAL backup every day.

We are starting the FULL and DIFFERENTIAL backups using something similar to

FULL Backup
backup database @DB to disk = @BackupFile

DIFFERENTIAL backup
backup database @DB to disk = @BackupFile WITH DIFFERENTIAL

A full backup was done on 10/6 and the DB size was 48GB. Since then we have been doing DIFFERENTIAL backups. I recently looked at the DIFFERENTIAL backup directory and found something I think is interesting.

10/07/2005 04:00 AM 8,604,160 prodDB_Diff_200510070400.BAK
10/08/2005 04:00 AM 1,144,320 prodDB_Diff_200510080400.BAK
10/09/2005 04:00 AM 1,134,080 prodDB_Diff_200510090400.BAK
10/10/2005 04:00 AM 21,185,024 prodDB_Diff_200510100400.BAK
10/11/2005 04:00 AM 7,119,360 prodDB_Diff_200510110400.BAK
10/12/2005 04:00 AM 163,669,504 prodDB_Diff_200510120400.BAK
10/13/2005 04:00 AM 14,743,040 prodDB_Diff_200510130400.BAK
10/14/2005 04:00 AM 120,875,520 prodDB_Diff_200510140400.BAK
10/15/2005 04:00 AM 1,216,000 prodDB_Diff_200510150400.BAK
10/16/2005 04:00 AM 5,139,968 prodDB_Diff_200510160400.BAK
10/17/2005 04:00 AM 4,277,760 prodDB_Diff_200510170400.BAK
10/18/2005 04:00 AM 2,778,624 prodDB_Diff_200510180400.BAK
10/19/2005 04:01 AM 750,575,104 prodDB_Diff_200510190400.BAK

My understanding of DIFFERENTIAL backups from books online is
"Specifies the database or file backup should consist only of the portions of the database or file changed since the last full backup"

MY Question:
Assuming I am understanding this correctly, all DIFFERENTIAL backups are independent of one another. If a failure happens, all I have to do is restore the latest FULL backup and then
restore the latest DIFFERENTIAL backup.

So, I would think the sizes of the backup files should be in ASCENDING order. Why is the size of the backup file from 10/15/2005 (1,216,000 bytes) smaller than the backup file from 10/14/2005 (120,875,520 bytes).

Assuming a crash happens on 10/15 5AM, I would restore the full backup from 10/6 and then restore the DIFF. backup from 10/15 4AM (Which will apply approx.. 1,216,000 bytes of data). So where has the data in the backup file from 10/14/2005 gone (120,875,520 bytes)?

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Hi,

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Hi sql server experts.
This is a beginners question.



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Should I start this job at 5:10 after the full backup finishes? or it doesn't matter?
I am confused about timing.

Let's say my full back up takes 1 hour to finish, that means that when the differential backup runs the full backup will be still running, so in case I need to restore the database, can I use this differential from 5:10 or the differential from 6:10.

Same issue with the transactional, the job runs every 30 minutes, should I started after the differential is done?

I am so confused, what happens with the backups jobs that run while other backups are running?

Is this something that should never happen.

Please advise.

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SQL version:
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3368.0 (X64)
May 22 2013 17:10:44
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
Enterprise Edition: Core-based Licensing (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.2 <X64> (Build 9200: )

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