SQL 7.0 Warm Backups ..
Aug 15, 2000Any one know of a good way to automate the warm backup process ...
I currently load the full DB dump from the night before and then load TLogs ...
Just curious if anyone has this automated
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Warm/hot Standby
May 16, 2000We are planning to provide a disaster recovery facility for a production system. Clustering has been ruled out for technical reasons so we are considering either transactional replication or Log shipping.
Microsoft suggested the log shipping option but it seems a bit messy to me and only provides a warm standby in that it only copies log backups to the secondary machine.
Any ideas why log shipping was suggested in preference to transactional replication? Anyone have any experience in this area?
TIA Colin.
Warm Backup
Dec 1, 1999i have two servers Production and Waiting, the waiting is a Fall back server and is in another state but in the same domain, is it possible to to use dump statement to dump database and transaction logs to the waiting server??
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Nov 6, 2001I have inherited a problem that I am hoping someone can help out with. A developer used a perl script to move some backup files from one server to another and then restore the databases on other server (at least we think that is what happened, no one is really sure at this point)
Now I need to take the databases ourt of read only mode and drop them but I get an error 5063 stating that the database is in warm standby and the alter database and sp_dboption statements both fail.
How do I get the databases out of warm standby mode?
Thanks in advance for any help you all can provide.
Brad
Warm Backup Problem
Dec 3, 1999i've disided to use a standby server, i have succeeded in running a schedulled task to dump the transcation log every hour the production server unto the waiting server, my problem is that i cannot run a schedulled task to restore the database on the waiting sever every hour any ideas what i might be doing wrong??
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Aug 6, 2001Can I have warm stand by database on SQL 2000 Server.The source server will be SQL 7.0.
In another words can i shipp transaction logs from SQL 7.0 and make Warm stand by on SQL 2000 with SQL 7.0 full and transaction log backups
Thanks
Mike
ATM Circuit & Sql 70 Warm Backup Servers
Apr 10, 2000Hello out there.
I am currently testing the transmission rates of sql server 70 backups over an ATM circuit (T3) from tampa, fl to detroit. We are evaluating what we need to do to relocate our warm backup database servers to our Disaster Recovery site in detroit. I have tried several types of transmissions and are not receiving any transfer rates that will reasonably work with a recovery plan. I have tried copying a file from source to target, I have tried backing up from source to target, I have tried FTP'ing files, and never can achieve higher transmission rate then 1 gig per hour.
I am looking to talk to anyone out there that may have implemented a long distance sql servber DR site or anyone who is thinking about it. Or anyone who has any input on how I might be able to achieve a higher transmission rate over a T3. Or anyone who is using SAN's in both their local and DR site and might be using special synchronizing software. I am currently piloting a Metastore SAN and a Compaq SAN to solve some local disk management problems and eventually transmit data from SAN to SAN for DR.
Please, if you are involved with any of these strategies and would like someone to share your knowledge with or if I can be of help to you by sharing our testing knowledge, please write asap.
Thanks.
Gail Wade
Database Administration
Raymond James Financial
gwade@it.rjf.com
How To Bring Up Warm Stabdby Server?
Sep 25, 2007Hello, everyone:
I am making disaster recovery plan and considering technical details. My question is that if I configure log shipping and primary server is failed. I have to bring up secondery server online. As warm standby server, the secondary server is Read-only. How to disable read-only?
Thanks
ZYT
Read-only And Warm Standby Status
May 4, 2004Hi,
I have one database with read-only status. I tried to change it back to normal by doing this..
EXEC sp_dboption 'test', 'read only', 'FALSE' by doing this i'm getting this
Changes to the state or options of database 'test' cannot be made at this time. The database is in single-user mode, and a user is currently connected to it.
And when i tried on Enterprise Manager it is saying
Error 5063 database 'test' is in warm Standby.
I cross checked and confirmed that it is not in single-user mode and no one is connected to the database!!
Any help is greately appreciated.
thanks
ss
ActiveX To Warm Up Report Server ?
Mar 21, 2007Because the IIS threads are recycled at night, the first user that calls up Report Manager in the morning has to wait 30 seconds before the page loads, as IIS is creating a thread.
I'd like to set up a job in SQL Agent that will navigate to http://localhost/reports/ every morning before users come in to work, so they won't have to wait.
I think a SAL Agent job of type ActiveX Script would be suitable for this, so I need to write the code to navigate to the reports page in VBScript.
Anyone knows how to navigate to a page in VBScript ?
tia.
SQL Server - Warm Standby Using Transaction Logs
Aug 3, 1999I have been asked to implement a Warm Standby using Transaction Logs on our main SQL Database - Version 6.5.
Can anyone give assistance regarding scripts, etc., which control the process.
Any assistance is much appreciated.
Regards,
Ian
SQL Server 2005 License For Warm Standby
May 9, 2007I have one cluster (two machines) of sql server 2005 active/passive called "ClustA" with one Ent. server edition license and another separate server called "STDA" as warm standby server for "ClustA".
Do I need SQL Server license for server "STDA"?
Thanks
DB Engine :: Will Transaction Log Backups Not Free Up Log During Full Backups
Nov 15, 2015The space allocated to the Log in question is 180 GB. During this time period I was running TLog backups every 5 minutes, yet the log continued to chew through to 80 GB used, even after the process was complete and a final TLog backup had been taken. It continued to stay very large until the Full backup was complete -- or something else that I'm unaware of completed. Like every other DBA I typically take a TLog backup to shrink the log, but what appeared to be the case here was the Full completed and it released the used log space. All said, will Transaction Log backups not free up the log during Full backups?
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Jan 14, 2007
Hi,
I'm trying to work out how to backup an ASP.NET 2.0 site which uses an SQL 2005 Express database located in the App_Data directory. It seems that the database file cannot be copied while in use so I guess that either leaves taking the site offline or maybe the database can be backed up to another location using a scheduled task?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dale
SQL 7 Backups
Mar 15, 2002What backups options do you have if you do not have a tape drive connected to your SQL 7.0 Server ? Can you run a SQL Maintenance Plan and backup the databases to a remote server. If not, can ARCServe 2000 backup the SQL backups to another server with a tape drive ?
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Jun 27, 2001I'm having trouble backing up two databases to tape. Should I be using a backup_device?
have a job defined with the following in it:
backup database test1
TO TAPE = '.Tape0'
with ...
go
backup database test2
TO TAPE = '.Tape0'
with ...
go
where should the init go?
Backups
Aug 28, 2001I've set up several backups in the past using the backup screen. I've also set up a Maintenance Plan to back up my database using MyDbName* where the * is the familiar suffix automatically generated by the system when the backup runs every night.
The trouble is that, even though I've deleted old maintenance plans and scheduled backups, they're not going away. Every morning, I see new nightly backups of old backups etc., in the backup folder. Furthermore, the maintenance plan I want to backup my database isn't creating a backup file.
How can I make the old backups stop running, and make sure the new backup runs? I've gone through everything and can't seem to find any residue of these old scheduled backups--yet they still run! Can anyone help?
Backups
Nov 13, 2000We are having problems with our tape drives so we are attempting to back up our databases to disk. I have a whole server on the network I could use for this. When I use the backup that comes with SQL 7.0 it won't allow me to choose a network drive. It looks like it must be a local drive. Is there a way around this so I could back it up to this other server. I jave 32 gig available on the server which would be plenty. We don't have enough disk space on the local drives to back it up. We have been having problems with our current tape drive company Exabyte. Does anyone have any recommendations. We are thinking of switching to another company.
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Dec 13, 2000I currenntly backup several databases to thier own unique device. Each backup is executed as a full backup (databases are small)and they are set to expire after 7 days. I checked my devices after 7 days and they continue to grow in size - is this right? I expected the device size to hold constant once I had a rolling seven days of backup (The databases don't change in size from day to day) Any ideas?
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Oct 18, 2000I'm using the database maintenance plans to backup my databases. We are backing them up to tape. Is there a way within the database maintenance plan to tell it to format the tape instead of appending it to the tape.
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Jan 4, 2000I couldn't restore a SQL 6.5 Backup in my SQL 7.0, because it is generating an error in SQl 7.0 that shows an Incompatible types.(media)
How can I restore a SQl 6.5 Backup into my new SQL 7.0 ??? Please Help me, because I'm a Beginner in SQL 7.0.
Thanks in Advance.
Backups
Nov 30, 2000I am trying to make sure I have my backups scheduled correctly and in the correct spot. We have a tape drive on the server which is backing up the databases each night. The logs I have them currently being backp up once an hour to disk. My question is would it better to have the logs back up to the tape drive or to disk. The server where I'm backing up the logs to has 2 drive C and D. Where D contains the data and C contains the application/program files. I'm assuming I wouldn't want it on D since if there was a crash with that drive and we lost the data we wouldn't be able to get the logs for that day so it would be better to put it on C. What are most people doing to backup there logs. At the end of the day after a full backup I clear the device that contains the log backups. It this good practice?
Stacy
Backups
Aug 10, 1999How do you backup to a remote drive?
The book says that inorder to backup to a remote drive, you need to log on with a domain NT account with administrative privileges.
I am unable to log on with a domain account and backup to a mapped drive.
For example, S1 and S2 are two servers in the domain D1. The NT domain administrative account is A1. I need to backup a database D1 on S1 to a location on S2. For this I do the following.
On S1,
sp_addumpdevice 'disk','dump_dev','s2sharenamefilename.bak'
On executing, I get,
(1 row(s) affected)
'Disk' device added.
Then when run the command,
backup database D1to dump_dev
I get the following error,
Server: Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot open backup device 'dump_dev'. Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more details.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally.
The event log shows the following error message:
BackupDiskFile::CreateMedia: Backup device 's2sharenamefilename.bak' failed to create. Operating system error = 1326(Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.).
Please let me know how to back up to a mapped drive using TSQL and Enterprise Manager.
Thank you.
Praveena
Old Backups
Dec 4, 2000I have a dump device configured to append the backup file each time a backup is run. This file has grown extremely large. Im looking for a way to go into the file and delete all but the last 2 or 3 backups. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks
7.0 Backups
Apr 5, 1999Hello,
is there any backup software (archserve,ultraback) that has a sql agent for 7.0 ? I have not found one yet.
Charlie Principato
Dialamerica Marketing,Inc.
Backups
Sep 11, 2003I have a SQL2K/SP3 database with an MDF of 4GB and an LDF of .5GB. If I do a backup using Enterprise Manager, whether manually or via a DB Maintenance Plan, I get a .BAK of approx. 2GB. If I do a backup using:
USE master
EXEC sp_addumpdevice 'disk', 'RAMScopyBAK', 'F:MSSQLBACKUPRAMScopyRAMScopy.BAK'
GO
BACKUP DATABASE RAMScopy TO RAMScopyBAK
GO
I get a .BAK of 24GB !!!
In the end I want a T-SQL step to be part of a SQA job that will back up the database, thus the use of the dumpdevice command. I could create a maintenance plan, disable the jobs it creates, and then start them via sp_start_job, but this is just an example of a systemic problem; i.e. I'd have to do individual maintenance plans for more than one database.
Help?
Thanks,
Al
Backups
Aug 22, 2001For a lot of smaller/medium sized systems that I administer, I tend to use SQL Server to backup to a backup device and then let the normal system backups backup the dump files to tape.
However, I am taking on a new system with approx 900Gb of data. We dont want to buy another 900Gb of disk to secure the databases ! I have found the SQL Agents in Arcserve 2000 to be unreliable to say the least. (we dont want to stop the SQL Services either)
Would anyone recommend alternative software to backup large databases.
Thanks
Tom
Backups
Aug 21, 2001Hello,
Can anyone guide me which method is best to dump databases to a tape.
Using Sql server to dump database to tape or dumping of the file to tape.
Thanks
Sejal
Sql Backups
Oct 9, 2001Is there a way in SQL 2k running on win2k adv. server to map a scsi tape device from one sql server to another so database backups can run to the remote tape device??
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Feb 1, 2005database backups and differential backups
i took database back up on 01-jan-2005 and from 2nd jan onwards im taking differential backups. if i want to restore the database to a new system, is it sufficient that i restore the back up which i took on 1st jan , and the most recent differential backup ? will the entire data till the last back up date be restored?
Backups
Dec 30, 2003Hi Guys,
I'm pretty new to SQL Server. I have a ? regarding backups.
I have a database which I'm backing up everyday using BACKUP DATABASE db TO db_bak WITH INIT. This job runs everyday successfully, but I'm having an evergrowing transaction log file. I presumed a full database backup will apply transaction logs and will truncate the log files. Isnt it so, or am i missing some concepts? This database can have a data loss of 1 day which is covered by my full database backup job. I dont need a transaction log backup. But to reduce log file size should I do a log backup?
-Sunil.
Backups
May 20, 2004I have some backups scheduled on my sqlserver.most of them are differentail backups.But among them some have options 'Append to media' and some of them are 'Overwrite existing media '. But i dont know which of them falls into which category.How can i find that and can i cahnge 'Append to media' to 'Overwrite existing media '?If yes how can i do that?Does it effect my db if i change it?
INfact which one is the best option ('Append to media','Overwrite existing media ') among these two?
Thanks.
Backups
Feb 8, 2006Just Read this :-
A complete database backup is very simple to execute and use in recovery. If your data doesn't change often, you might simply schedule a nightly full backup of your database. Even if you need more frequent backups, regularly scheduling a full database backup each hour might be sufficient (if your database is small enough).
Now what does a small database mean , can someone please let me the size in (GB) that a DB is considered to be small (even a range would do )
& How much time does the backup take , or should taken on a dual processor server. I mean need to get a rough idea
Thanks...