I need to restore test DB from production backup but once it is restored I would need all the permissions of sql logins and windows AD account intact in test Db as it was before.
View 4 RepliesHi all:-
I administer about 100 databases. I back them up to a file on the server hard drive everynight. Once a month I would like to test restore the backups . Due to the huge number of databases now its almost impossible to manually test restore them one by one so I came up with an automated script to do it. I have a database called testrestore and I restore each backup file to it get the count on certain crucial tables, throw it in a different table for later comparison and replace the database with the next backup file. I need to run this script on production, do you think its okay to test restore 100 databases one after the other using the 'replace' parameter ? Can it cause any memeory issues ? Is there any other way to test restore such a huge number of databases ? Suggestions are welcome.
Thanks.
I am trying to copy a production db (26.5 gigs) with a 3 gig log from production to a test server. The Prod db name is EDD_Cat which resides on one logical drive for the data (.mdf) and another logical drive for the log (.ldf). The test server does not have the same physical raid allocation. The only way that I can get that much space is to spread the data across 3 logical drives. I have preallocated a database called EDD_CatT with the same total physical db size. I have not been successful in restoring from a sql backup device (copied from production) to the new test db. Here are my tsql statements and error:
Restore Database EDD_Catt
from Iloc01bkp
with File=2,
Move 'EDD_Cat_dat' to 'D:Mssql7DataEDD_Cat.mdf',
Replace,
Move 'EDD_Cat_dat' to 'E:Mssql7DataEDD_Cat2.ndf',
Replace,
Move 'EDD_Cat_dat' to 'F:Mssql7DataEDD_Cat3.ndf',
Replace,
Move 'EDD_Cat_log' to 'G:Mssql7DataEDD_Log1.ldf',
Replace
start db restore
---------------------------
2001-01-02 12:23:31.610
(1 row(s) affected)
Server: Msg 3257, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
There is insufficient free space on disk volume 'E:' to create the database. The database requires 20447232000 additional free bytes, while only 1732972544 bytes are available.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally.
I also tried using EM but basically got the same type of error.
I could do this with SQL 6.5 as long as the db size was the same or larger.
Any advice/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. BOL and the manuals that I have seem to only give examples that have one file for the data and another for the log but I could not find one that gave an example of what I am trying to do.
Thanks much for your time
Calvin Matsumoto - State of California
Hello
Can anybody give me an idea or a script which can be used to Restore a production Database to Test Database on another server. As I need to do this 3 days a week, I would like to make this automated.
Thanks
Hi All:
Please advise me about restore a master database from production to test server.
The reason to do this because I need to test and evaluate some login in master database.
I tried to restore master database to test server, but I got some errors regarding about user databases are not exists in test server. I don't want to restore user databases, I only need master database for evaluate user login.
Again thanks for your advice.
I have performed several restores due to poor equipment(in the past where I used to work, now I have a brand new HP); this database has never crashed. I read an article in which the guy said a good DBA should be doing a test restore at least once a month. I see where that would be extremely important since i test my ups weekly, and my genset once a week, why not ensure that the data is good also.
OK, HOW?
I am trying to imitate a DR situation where the primary db is down and I need to recover the secondary db on another server. They are a log shipping pair and so to imitate a DR, I remove the log shipping in the primary server maintenance plan. Then I go to the secondary server and disable the log shipping jobs there and attempt to do the following
RESTORE DATABASE database_name WITH RECOVERY
but I can't get exclusive use because the database is in use. But I don't see any other users... am I wrong in thinking that the log shipping was completely deleted? Anything I can do to force exclusive access?
I have two SQL Databases on separate servers, live and test. I have been asked to copy the data from the live system and put it into test. They are SQL Management Studio 2008 running on MS Server 2008R2.
Could a simple backup of the database, then copy that file to the test system and restore the database from that point work or it there more to it?
I am working towards automating the process of testing our backups. For the meantime, I do it all manually - I copy the backup files (full + transaction logs) to our test server and then run the restore script. Once database restored I run the DBCC CheckDB. The results of checkdb I manually upload to our Sharepoint portal as proof that the backup file is intact with no errors.
here are some ideas I have but have not yet tested:
Create a maintenance plan with each 3 jobs:
--> Powershell script to copy the files from Prod server to Test server - add this scrip to Job1
--> Powershell script to restore databases files - add this script to Job2
--> Run the DBCC in powershell (yet to find if possible in PS) - add this script to Job3
I would like to use seperate jobs as to get a report on the duration and status of each job
Would also like to get the results of the DBCC Checkdb as proof that no errors were found for upload to our Sharepoint portal. Dont know if possible via the job.
So, we are about 3 weeks away from going into production, and somehow we failed to give much thought to deploying our RS project into production.
We have over 110 report models that need to be deployed into production, and until now, we just deploy into our dev and test environments using Visual Studio. But, in our production environment, our deployers will not have Visual Studio.
Is there any simply backup/restore method that can be used to move our test environment into production? Please don't suggest a copy of each file one at a time /sigh.
Appreciated,
Scott
Hi all,
I have to make many tests on datas i have in 2 specific tables.
My goal would be to backup datas somewhere to be able to restart from clean environment and tests many things with the same datas into my tables.
Could someone explain how to do it ?
thanks
Florent
Howdy;
I've tried this in the 'tools' area, but that didn't work too well. I suspect, I will have to generate a T-SQL code then schedule it as a job. Why I can't just drag and drop with basic desires, is beyond me, but THAT probably does exist.
anyway here is the problem
[this server has many databases, on SQL 2000 sp2]
1. User only wants me to use Monday morning's full backup, which is good in that it doesn't include transaction logs.
2. Restore that data overtop/into Developement db. = good, no data to worry about damaging.
3. User does NOT want me to do this by hand, but schedule it.
ok,
a. must do a RESTORE WITH FILELISTONLY from [?] what ?, master? and if I user the *.bak of the production, it has
a coded date field in the name entry SO, I would, I guess, have to generate all sorts of wonderful code to find the date and build a file name. Why, because using the FROM DISK = 'F:MSSQLBACKUPDBPRODUCTION_yyyyddmm.BAK' is not going to work with a wild card.
Can I do a file lookup using a 'PRODUCTION' prefix into a variable, then use that or should I look for latest file date [remember there are several database backups here], or ????
then. How does one schedule such a T-SQL. Do I save it to some text file, and invoke it using a job scheduler.
any help appreciated.
IS there an easier way.
rik
We are setting up a test lab environment with 100 machines. We want one master testing db that gets replicated to each to run scripted application tests nightly.
My goal is to minimize the amount of work to move this thing to each of the 100 test machines. I am wondering if we need to even have the sql local and invest in a monster db server with 100 copies of the db we restore and each test machine point to their own db on that server, or if I should use db mirroring or something to get the master test db to each of those machines instead.
Now that we have a good programming model in SSIS - the question is whether to write automated unit tests for your packages, and would it generally be a good idea for packages?
Also - if yes to write tests - then where to find more informations regarding How to accomplish that?
hi every one,
i need to test SSIS pacakge which will import data from different database where record count is around 5 millions.
iam planning to test it through c# code as well as manually also.
SSIS source : consist of 7 tables
SSIS destination :consist of 7 tables
Using c# code iam trying to run ssis package through batch file.
i am putting expected rowcount, column count in an excel file and comparing same with destination tables by writing query implementing ADO.Net concept.
am i going right way ,can any one suggest best and productive way to test the ssis package .
what are the other things i need to test it.
do any one can add test cases to it.
S.No
Test Case
1
Verify all the tables have been imported.
2
Verify all the rows in each table have been imported.
3
Verify all the columns specified in source query for each table have been imported
4
Verify all the data has been received without any truncation for each column.
5
Verify the schema at source and destination
6
Verify the time taken /speed for data transfer
7
Fields truncated due to difference in length of the field at destination.
Regards
Arif shareef
What I want to do is :
- restore a backup of a 3rd party database onto one of our servers
- this has no users that I can use
- there is some ETL processing so we're using Control-M to manage the process
- create a database user and grant it db_reader.
I'd like to do this without granting any users elevated privileges if possible.
What I've done so far is grant the Control-M user (this is a domain user) dbcreator rights and made it owner of our copy of the database that is being refreshed.
The refresh is completing, but Control-M is not able to log onto the database to create the user.
What is the best way to accomplish this task without granting the control-m user sysadmin rights?
Would I be able to do it if I used a SQL Agent job for the restore and user creation?
I'm having an issue to restoring database from prod to report server. I'm getting following error.
When I did Manually I got first error as below.
Msg 233, Level 20, State 0, Line 0 A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe.)
This is the second error
Msg 3044, Level 16, State 1, Line 37
Invalid zero-length device name. Reissue thestatement with a valid device name.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 37
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
Msg 5011, Level 14, State 5, Line 45
User does not have permission to alter database 'XeP', the database does not exist, or the database is not in a state that allows access checks.
Msg 5069, Level 16, State 1, Line 45
ALTER DATABASE statement failed.
Script Which I used.
USE Master;
GO
SET NOCOUNT ON
-- 1 - Variable declaration
DECLARE @dbName sysname
DECLARE @backupPath NVARCHAR(500)
[Code] .....
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The Test db runs in the same instance as Prod db.
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I am creating my first SSIS package, simple, I read a file, a computation and then write it to an excel.
I am getting the message: "Test connection failed because of an error in initializing provider." The database is NOT remote. My computer is slow though. after about 10 or 15 seconds after clicking the button to test my connection, I get the message and much more. The message asks me if the instance name is correct. I don't know what this would be. This message is on the first task, reading the file (finding the file).
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I have created an Operator and set up Profiles and Accounts, just as I did on my DEV server.
I have a closed polygon that coincidently is in the shape of Iowa :) I have a point that is within the state and a point WELL outside it, but I get weird results that I don't expect when I try to get it to tell me that the point is within the polygon. Here is some basic code, with long coordinates data.
DECLARE @g geography,
@pIn geography,
@pOut geography
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[code]...
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Hi All,
Greetings,
Sql server 7
I am trying to restore a database of sql server 7 to another. Restoring is happening fine with respect to tables, stored procedures etc, but i am not able to restore the users that are present in the source database.
Please help in this.
TIA
i restored a database from a .bak file.
from production to development.
But i dropped the database from development before restoring. Now all the users are gone from this database. Anyone know how to recover them?
the users from development are different from production's
Hi,
After doing a database restore on my development server, It only shows DBO As the db user..When I query SYSUSER all other users are still there..But doesn't show up in enterprise manager...
Anybody came acrosss the same situation ?
Thanks for you help in advance.
I made a backup of a production database and copied that backup over to a development server and restored the database. Now I have users saying that the application is failing on development. I have users that have NT authentication and some with SQL authentication.
What is the best way to get everything to sync up again?????
HI guys,
I just restored a database on a new server with a backup(complete backup stored in backup device) from another database on another server using the "with move" option. In fact here was my process:
Alter database ngauge SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
restore database ngauge
from disk = 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLBACKUPgauge1.BAK'
with move 'NGAUGE' to 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLDatagauge_Data.MDF',
move 'NGAUGE_Log' to 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLDatagauge_Log.LDF'
Alter database ngauge SET READ_WRITE
it worked.
But it did not move the 98 or so users/logins...from the source database
what is going on??? what am I doing wrong??!!
Please help!
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