Should TLog Backup Be Suspended During Full Backup
Mar 15, 2007If I create an adhoc db backup that takes, say 30 miuntes to complete, should I suspend the tran log backups that run every 10 minutes, until the full backup is complete?
Drew
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SQL Server 2008 :: Backup Running Long And Backup Threads Show Suspended
Feb 18, 2015SQL Server 2008 r2 - 6 GB memory...I attempted a backup on a 500GB database but it was taking way too long. I checked the resources on the box and saw the CPU at 100%. I checked the SQL Server activity log and saw a hung query (user was not even logged on) that had multiple threads so I killed it and now the CPU utilization is back to normal.
Trouble is, now all of the threads in the activity monitor for the backup show 'suspended' and the backup appears to be not doing anything.
Can I TLog Backup From LDF File?
Mar 21, 2007I am considering some disaster recovery scenarios.
Lets assume my MDF is gone - the disks are dead.
The LDF is on a different disk channel. Lets assume its fine.
Can I make a "final" TLog backup from the "good" LDF file?
Maybe copy some-earlier-MDF file into place, would that enable a TLog backup from the LDF file?
'Coz if I can then I could use that as a route to getting a zero-loss recovery - make a final TLog backup, and then restore the whole lot from last FULL + All TLog backups thereafter.
Kristen
TLog Backup Then Start Log Shipping
Apr 9, 2008Hello,
I have an SQL 2005 maintenance plan that backups up the t-logs of my production db every 15 minutes. I want to begin log shipping over to a warm-standby secondary server. The network share, log shipping folder is not the same folder location as my maintenance plan folder. My question is, do I need to disable the maintenance plan for tlog backups in order for log shipping to be sucessful? Or will the dual backups to seperate backup folder locations cause a failure in the secondary server restore process?
I suspect the latter but wanted a second opinion.
Thanks.
2005 BACKUP LOG Process Goes To Suspended State For Every DB
Dec 4, 2007Hello. We recently ran into extremely large transaction log sizes on our SQL 2005 box...turns out they were not being backed up. After doing some research, I found that they should be backed up very frequently in order to kee their sizes down. I kind of inherited the mess, but got three maintenance plans set up:
FULL Backup that runs weekly
DIFFERNTIAL Backup that runs nightly
TRANSACTION LOG backup that runs hourly
However, since I implemented the plans there has been high CPU utilization at all times. I finally figured out what was causing it today...the BACKUP LOG process is hanging in "Suspended" mode when I view processes. I have to manually kill them to release the CPU utilization.
How can I trace the cause of the hang? Is there a better way to backup/truncate the log files?
Regards,
Matthew
SQL 2012 :: Backup Cleanup Of Differential And Log Backups Based On Full Backup?
Feb 19, 2015Using 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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SQL Security :: Full Backup Needed After Restoration Of Database Before Transaction Log Backup
Jul 15, 2015We 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?
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Nov 16, 2015I have a database that is just over 1.5GB and the Full backup that is 13GB not sure how this is since we have compression on for full backups and my other full backups are much smaller than there respective databases...Now my full backup is taken every Sunday night and the differentials are taken every 6 hours after the full backup. Now I have been thrown into this DBA role with little to no experience just what I have picked up and read. So my understanding of backups are limited but what I think I understand is that we take a full backup and the differential only captures what changes in the database so my question is why is my database 1.5GB but my differential is 15.4GB? I have others database that are on the same instance and don't seem to have this problem. I also just noticed that we do not rebuild the index before a full backup like we do on other instances...
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Nov 29, 2007If my backup starts at 8PM and take 1 hour to complete, will the changes made to the database during that hour be captured in the full backup?
Stated another way, will my backup be a snapshot of:
a) 8PM when the backup started
b) 8PM with some of the changes made between the hour
c) 9PM when the backup finished?
Anybody know the exact way SQL Server handles that logic?
Thanks,
Marc
Differential Backup Fails Because Of Erroneous Full Backup
Jul 19, 2007Hi
I am using the Simple recovery model and I'm taking a weekly full backup each Monday morning with differentials taken every 4 hours during the day.
On Wednesday afternoon, a programmer ran a process that corrupted the db and I had to restore to the most recent differential. It was 5pm in the afternoon and a differential backup had just occured at 4pm. No problem, I figured.
I restored the full backup from Monday morning and tried to restore the most recent differential backup. The differential restore failed. Since I had used T-SQL for the initial attempt, I tried using Enterprise Manager to try again.
When viewing the backup history, I see my initial full backup taken on Monday plus all the differentials. BUT, on closer inspection, I noticed another full backup in the backup history that was taken early Tuesday morning. I can't figure out where this Tuesday morning full backup came from. It wasn't taken by me (or scheduled by me) and I'm the only one with access to the server. My full backups are usually named something like HCMPRP_20070718_FULL.bak. This erroneous full backup was named something like HCMPRP_03a_361adk2k_dd53.bak. It seemed like it was a system generated name. Not something I would choose. To top it off, I could not find this backup file anywhere on the server and when I tried to restore using this full backup, it failed.
Does anyone have any clues as to where this full backup might come from? Does SQL Server trigger a full backup on its own if some threshold is reached?
I ended up having to restore using the differential taken just before this erroneous full backup and lost a day of transactions.
Any insight is greatly appreciated.
How Can I Trigger Full Backup On Tran Log Backup Error?
Aug 8, 2007Hello,
I have MS SQL 2005 server with 300+ databases on it. The application is set up that way that it creates a new database as needed (dynamically). Do not ask me why - I hate this design... So, it can create 3-4 databases a day (random time).
I've scheduled full backup of all databases to run once at night, and it runs just fine. Besides that, I have scheduled tran logs backup of all databases to run every hour. This backup fails from time to time with the following error:
Executing the query "BACKUP LOG [survey_p0886464_test] TO DISK = N'D:\backups\log backups\survey_p0886464_test_backup_200708072300.trn' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'survey_p0886464_test_backup_20070807230002', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
" failed with the following error: "BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup.
BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
So, I think what happens is since my full backup of all databases are scheduled to run only once at night, and tran logs every hour, when new database is created during the day, there is no full backup for it, that is why tran logs backup fails. Becuase after the failure, if I run full backup again, then tran log runs just fine afterwards.
I am new to MS SQL Server, I am mostly working with Sybase IQ. Do you know if I can "trigger" full backup every time when new database created to avoid tran lof failure?
Or is it possible to schedule full backup to run if tran log backup fails?
Any advice will be much appreciated.
How To Restore Database From Full Backup And Several Diff Backup
Oct 17, 2006I have a full backup and several diff backup,now i want to restore
firstly,I restore full backup
RESTORE DATABASE ***
FROM DISK = 'D:databackup200610140000.bak'
WITH NORECOVERY
GO
it's working,then i don;'t know how to continue
Thanks in advance
SQL 2012 :: Reclaim Disk Space By Shrinking Log File After TLOG Backup
Feb 25, 2015I have a SQL Server 2012 DB in Full recovery mode that has never had a TLOG backup. the log is huge 200+GB.
I tried doing a transaction log backup but there is not enough space on the Disk.
How can I reclaim this log space in SQL Server 2012?
Should Full Backup And Transaction Backup Be From One Plan?
Mar 11, 2008Hello, 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
Differential Backup Not Smaller Than The Full Backup
Jun 6, 2007Hi,
Using SQL Server 2005, we have a 2.8Gb database under the Simple recovery model. The database contains ~50M rows and each night ~60k rows are loaded(appended) to the database by a SSIS task.
We configured a Maintenance Plan which is executed once a week to perform a full backup of the database. The resulting backup file is ~2.8Gb, as expected.
We also configured another Maintenance Plan which is executed every day, a few hours after the SSIS task is executed, to perform a differential backup. To our surprise, the resulting backup file is about the same size as the full backup, ~2.8Gb when it should only be a few MB (only 60k rows are added to the database)
When we launch the "Restore Database" wizzard we clearly see the different backup set, Full and Differential but they all have about the same size (same for the physical backup file on disk).
Is there anything we are missing, why are the differential backup that big?
Thanks for any advice.
Full Backup Includes Log Backup?
Oct 23, 2015In SQL Server, whether the full backup of a database includes the backup of the log?
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Jun 14, 2007Hi:
I have 30 databases on sql server 2005 that I need to do a full backup every morning at 7:00 and tran log backup every 30 minutes until 7:00 PM. If I create a maintenance plan for a backup using the wizard I have the option of starting a full backup at 7 am and then an option of doing tran log backups every hour using a different schedule. I plan on selecting the option to create a different folder for every database. I just need to confirm that in this way the way to restore the data would be
1. to restore a full backup
2. apply all the tran logs depending on the time they want to recover back to.
I just think this is the easiest approach to have 30 databases on the same backup scheme instead of creating a separate backup device for each database and doing a full backup on that device and appending all tran logs to that device which means just 1 bak file versus the above strategy with a number of tran log files. Please advise.
Thanks
BACKUP LOG Cannot Be Performed Because There Is No Current Database Backup. BACKUP LOG Is Terminating Abnormally.
Jan 31, 2008
Hi there
I'm getting this message on my third automated backup of the transaction logs of the day. Both databases are in full recovery mode, both successfully backed up at 01.00. The transaction logs backed up perfectly happily at 01:30 and 05:30, but failed at 09:30.
The only difference between 05:30 and 09:30's backups is that the log files were shrunk at 08:15 (the databases in question are the ones that sit under ILM2007, and keeping the log files small keeps the system running better).
Is it possible that shrinking the log files causes the database to think that there hasn't been a full database backup?
Thanks
Jane
TLog Full
Dec 15, 2000Hi,
My Transaction log has 0% Log Space available. I have performed a dump transaction with no_log but to no effect. I have also extended the log size from
100MB to 200MB and this has not made any inmpression either after several dump database statements also.
The Data Device was 500MB and I extended it to 800MB and again performed a backup. Has anyone any idea how to recover from this situation ?
I can make queries on the data fine but the several backups(and Truncate log) I have made are still not creating any space for my Transaction log.
Please help !
Thanks in advance,
Alan
Full Backup
Jul 20, 2005I start a full backup on a database at 5pm. The backup job takes 3hours to complete. While the backup job is running, someone insertsrecords to the db. Will the backup include the new records? Or inother words, are the contents of a SQL Server backup a snapshot of thedatabase at the start time of the backup?
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Dec 10, 2007I have a scheduled job backup/maintenance plan. In it I told it to delete all logs older than one day.
Does that mean it delete logs for every job or just that job? I ask because for some reason all the logs on every job is being truncated down to one day.
Thanks
SQL 2012 :: Full Backup And AO
Feb 23, 2015We need to setup an AO availability Group for a database for which a full backup exists but the DB is in simple recovery mode now. If i change the recovery mode to full and try to configure AG will this full backup will be used or do i need to create a new full backup.
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Jul 20, 2005Question 13 GHZ CPU (Intel pentium 4) single cpu + 2 GB Memory + SCSI HDDDatabase size 10 GB - How long will full database backup take if thebackup is writing a file to the hard disk (separate hard disk)Question 2during this full backup are users and application able to access thedatabasefor examplea) select recordsb) insert , update, delete recordsor is the database backup causing the database to be exclusivelylocked up ?Thanks in advance
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Dec 5, 2007Hi all,
We have log shipping set up for some our databases.
So, my question is, Can i take a FULL BACKUP of databases which are involved in log shiping at primary.
--> Please give your comments on this.
Thanks.
Deleting Media Set After A Full Backup
Nov 29, 2000We are doing a full backup at night. During the day we are doing a backup of the log every hour. How do I delete the log backups from the media without deleting the device itself. I would like to do this once we have a full backup for the day. The media we are backing up the logs to is disk.
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Feb 17, 2004Hi Everybody,
I am kind of new to MS SQL server databases. I like to take a full export at database level. When I use DTS wizard, it did allow me to take one table at a given time. I have 1000's of table in my database. Manually doing so is not possible. Should i call the 'bcp' command line utility 1000 times to collect the table data to 1000 different flatfiles or is there any provision to take export of all the 1000 tables in one single command/tool.
Many thanks.
Transaction Log Needed When Full Backup Is Done?
Apr 30, 2008Please correct me if I am wrong with this:
I am using SQL Server 2000, when I do a backup I use the database maintenance plan at enterprise manager. I select my database and then I schedule the complete backup and transaction log backup to "everyday at 22:00:00"
My question is, do I really need to do the transaction log backup? If I am not wrong with the complete backup I can already recover all my data, the transaction log backup is useless if done at the same time that I do the complete backup, right?
Backup And Restore(full + Transaction Log)
Mar 10, 2008I have this database "DB1" which is in FULL recovery mode.
I run full daily backup -Monday to Saturday
DB1_Mon.bak
DB1_Tue.bak
DB1_Wed.bak
DB1_Thur.bak
DB1_Fri.bak
DB1_Sat.bak
Come Sunday - for the first time I have run transaction log backup.
DB1_Sun.trn
And now, I need to restore DB1 - but the only full backup that I have is the Monday - "DB1_Mon.bak"
Is my database complete if I restore only "DB1_Mon.bak" plus the "DB1_Sun.trn"?
Jeboy
Simple Recovery And Full Backup
Jun 10, 2006Hi MVPS/MS Experts:
Pardon me and my ignorance for asking this question. I just want to understand the backup architecture more clearly. According to BOL (both in SQL 2k and SQL 2k5) in simple recovery mode trasaction log backup is not possible since the log is truncated on checkpoint which is true. Also we know that FULL backup backups both the db and transaction log as well.
My question is what happens when a database is in simple recovery mode and a full backup is done. since the tran log cannot be backed up does only the db backup is done when a full backup is done?. What exactly happens behind the scenarios?. Is it that only the active log gets backed up when a full backup is done in simple recovery mode?. I am trying to understand how a full backup in simple recovery mode behaves without contradicting the full backup architecture and that the veracity of the statement (both db and tran log backup in full backup mode) holds true for a simple recovery scenario.
MVPs/ MS Experts if you could Please explain it in detail, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks
Ankith
Full And Incremental Backup Question
Jun 14, 20071) We are doing Weekly Full & DAILY night incremental backup of TL using Veritas Backup Manager to Tape.
One day I took Incremental Backup of TL file manually using studio and deleted the backup file.
Will I able to restore completed if something happens on next day ? Is automated backup takes care of Incremental backup from last night instead of manual interim backup ?
What is the recommendation ? If automated backup is enabled, we should not do manual backup ?
2) In Full Recovery Modek , If I do full backup , Does it backup Transactional Log also or only Datafiles ?
Thanks
Backup/Full-text Issues
Jan 31, 2008First off let me say I am very new to SQL Server so this may be a stupid question but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere.
I am trying to back up my database by right clicking on my database and selecting back up from tasks. When I click back up I get the following error:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express
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Backup failed for Server 'SERVER82SQLSERVEREXP2'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.Smo)
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The backup of full-text catalog 'Misc' is not permitted because it is not online. Check errorlog file for the reason that full-text catalog became offline and bring it online. Or BACKUP can be performed by using the FILEGROUP or FILE clauses to restrict the selection to include only online data. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.Smo)
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BUTTONS:
OK
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I have researched a little online and it seems that I don't have full-text indexing installed.
Now for the questions.
1. Can I backup some other way than the method I am using now?
2. How do I install full-text indexing?
Thanks!
Pete