SQL Backup Continuosly Grows And Fills Up Drive Issue
Nov 1, 2007
I currently have a SQL backup process that backs up my databases via the network to a backup hard drive on a separate system. I recently began getting strange issues with my backup process in which it continually writes to the backup drive until the drive fills up and then the job fails. I also noticed that when I kill the job on the host server, the backup file drops to the normal file size. The normal file size is 300 GB but it has grown to over 400GB. I looked at various logs and even performed several backup tests with success.
I am trying to figure out if this is a known SQL Server issue or an issue with the OS?
specs:
windows 64bit/sql server 2k5 64bit
Thanks in advance for the help.
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We're trying to backup some dbs to a network drive but fail.
I read that the 'a/c to run SQLAgent must be a domain user a/c with
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What is proper permission? Read, Write ?
Only the a/c that runs SQLAgent needs the proper permission, the job's owner doesn't?!?
Thanks in advance,
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Hi guys.
Has anyone ever done SQL DB backup directly onto a maped network drive?
We've got a really huge DB 100GB+ that just wont fit into the local Hard Disk for backup.
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Cheers,
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I have creted a backup device on network drive and getting the following error when I run the backup command as a job.SQL server and the agent are running on a domain account which has full permission on the network drive.Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
"Cannot open backup device 'mccdiffbkpond2build'.
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I am setting up a backup on one of my DB's and the network drive does not appear as an location that I can backup too. Only the C drive is present. However, on the server I do have a drive mapped to the network drive, so it should be available. Has anyone encountered this issue before?
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I want to perform backups to a network drive. I need to know if I can access the backup drive via UNC. I have not been able to get it to work and, for now, I would just like to know if what I am trying to do SHOULD work.
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I'm looking for either a sql statement or a stored procedure to accomplish this.
For example...the backup script states:
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N'H:MSSQLBackupmaster'
I need to know how this script gets H:MSSQLBackup
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Hi there,
Does anyone know if it's possible to perform a MSSQL7 database backup on a network drive instead of the local drives ?
...and if yes, how to proceed ?
It seems to be possible under MSSQL2000.
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Is this possible? I can only seem to restore when the *.bak is on a local drive which is ridiculous. I'm sure this translates to other operations in addition to restoring databases...
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i have taken full database backup on tape drive one week ago,by automated scripts ,now when i check the maintenance plan history , it says the task failed and gives a message that unable to open the \. ape0 ,with error
([Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000)] Error 3201: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot open backup device '\. ape0'. Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more details.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
)
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HI
i am trying to take a backup on Network drive but i am getting following error message. althought when i try to type the address in window explorer. i can access the specific folder. so that there shouldn't be network security issue.... and even thought the backup device name is correct.
when i try to take backup on local disk, it work's fine....
Executed as user: NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM. Cannot open backup device 'FullBackup(\0.0.0.0SQL_BackupsFullBackupsFullBackup.bak)'. Operating system error 5(error not found). [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3201) BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013). The step failed.
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First posting to the group. I have received a lot of valuable info from youguys. Now, an OT question:What's a good tape drive to perform unmanned weekly backups for a WindowsXP Pro box running SQL server 2000?--Joel Farris | AIM: FarrisJoel** Their Web. Your Way. http://getfirefox.com **
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My question is:
Is it possible to backup directly to a network drive using a Workgroup/ Standard edition of SQL Server rather than backing up to a local drive and then 'copy and paste' to a network drive like the Express Edition.My other question is :
Given a database limit of 50GB, which one of the editions, Workgroup or Standard, will be appropriate for use.Thank you for your time and patience.
Regards
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Hi,
I have created an sql server 2005 maintenance plan for a daily backup. The plan has two 'Back up database task' i.e. one backup on the local drive while the second on a network drive. When the plan is executed, a backup is created on the local drive but not on the network drive. If i check the log, it says "Access Denied" whereas i have full access to the network drive with complete permissions to read, write and delete.
Can anyone help me understand how to take a backup on both a local and network drive at the same time using a maintenance plan ? I shall be obliged...
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Is there a way to get this backup done?
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I have 2 different servers that run nightly backup jobs to a network drive using the UNC format. I am noticing the larger databases encountering the following errors on a regular basis
Error: 18210, Severity: 16, State: 1.
'\fnfssql3SQLBackupsMNSQL05<database>.BAK'. Operating system error 64(The specified network name is no longer available.).
BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE <database>. Check the backup application log for detailed messages.
There are 5 databases on this server all backed up by the same job and 3 of them wortk fine and 2 of them fail so it is not a permissions problem. Have there been any problems with backing up to a network drive in 2005?
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I get the following error in a log file created in the osql command:
Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Server KAC2KGS2, Procedure usp_Kaman_Full_SqlDB_Backup, Line 150
Cannot open backup device 'x:Servername_master_sqlbu_200703101930.bkf'.
Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more
details.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Server KAC2KGS2, Procedure usp_Kaman_Full_SqlDB_Backup, Line 150
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
The device is established in a CMD file right before the osql command is started that starts my stored procedure. The CMD in this file is:
for /f "tokens=15 delims=." %%i in ('ipconfig^|find "IP Address"^|find "192.168"') do set SUBNET=%%i
:loop
if exist x: net use x: /del
net use x: \192.168.%SUBNET%.1ackup
if not ERRORLEVEL 1 (
goto continue
) else (
echo FAILED TO CONNECT TO BACKUP SERVER >> "%SystemDrive%LogFiles\%Computername%.log"
sleep 60
goto loop
)
:continue
echo IP ADDRESS OBTAINED
Echo delete old log file if it exists
if exist %3\%computername%_kaman_full_sqldb_backup_old.log del /Q %3\%computername%_kaman_full_sqldb_backup_old.log
Echo Rename log file to old.log
rename %3\%computername%_kaman_full_sqldb_backup.log %computername%_kaman_full_sqldb_backup_old.log
echo backup SQL Databases on server will start now
osql -E -n -d %1 -i %2kaman_full_sqldb_backup.sql -h-1 -o %3\%Computername%_kaman_full_sqldb_backup.log
In the stored procedure I try to use the x: drive and that does not work. I have tried obtaining the \192.168.x.x address and that only works on some of my servers. All are running SQL 2000, some are using Win2K and Win2003. It does not seem to matter. One of them that is using Win2003 only fails occationally.
I notice when I do a
exec master..xp_cmdshell 'x:'
The system cannot find the drive specified.
Yet, when I go to the server there is an x drive.
I am using the sqlserv user to run the job and that use is an administrator on the local machine. This is a virtual machine. We add the X before the osql and drop it after the command finishes.
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An alternate approach would be to run the backup job again, after the main backup, and change the destination to the alternate location. But I was thinking that another backup job would probably invoke more overhead on the server than a simple file copy operation. If I do end up taking this approach I could also use the cleanup task to toss older bak files in the alt dir.
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Hi SSRS Experts
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Shouldnt those tables be cleaned up every 10minutes with this setting?
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Asp.net 2.0 (VB) application with Sql server 2000 Installed in windows 2000 professional server.Only less than 10 users using this application.
The problem is sometimes the application didn't response, it's very slow to get the information and after sometimes its never responding it showing hourclass.
I used Helper class (Application Block). Since Sql Server 2000 doesn't have the MARS Function, i have manually close the connection and opening again everytime.
Any idea?. Thanks in advance.
Help Class Modified Code:
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Code :
' If the provided connection is not open, we will open it
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mustCloseConnection = True
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Data ObjectBase :
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Try
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Throw New Exception("Transaction Error in Begin")
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