Environment: Win Server 2003 Standard Version, SQL Server 2000, HPDDS3 Tape(local).Backup procedure:1. open SQL Server Enterprise Manager2. find the database i want to backup3. right click and select "All Tasks"-"Backup Databse..."4. Select "destination"-"backup to"-->>"Tape"5. Click "Add", Select "Tape" device name(or may address)"\.Tape0"6. Click "OK" begin to backupError:system prompt:The file on device '\.Tape0' is not a valid Microsoft Tape Formatbackup set. BACKUP DATABSE is terminating abormally.On this SAME server, using the same TAPE, but USE Tapeware(a HP backupsoftware come with HP tape machine) to back file, everything is OK.I don't have any clue about this. am new to Windwos, new to SQLserver. Any body could show me light? Thanks in advance.A.Y. From shanghai/China
Perhaps this maybe a silly simple questions SCENERIO: Say i want to make a nightly backup of the Masterdb and the same for a user database. One that kicks off at 8 and the other at 9. For soem reason I am having difficult time with this.. Some help please??
I have a COTS database on MSSQL 6.5, no service packs... I used sp_help_revdatabase to create the same database on a different server, using the same data and log device sizes and paths. I scripted the database, tables, stored procedures, and user defined datatypes, created them on the new server, and tried to restore a tape dump from the previous server to the new database. It would say "restoring", but then "DBLibrary is dead or connection broken", when I click OK to this message, it sais "restore complete" then the database appears grayed out and reads "loading".
We have a heterogenious network of Windows 2003 Server/SQL Server 2005 machines and Linux file servers. For various reasons our HP/Compaq DLT tape drive robots are attached to our Linux file servers.
What options exist for sending backups to remote tape drives that are attached to a Linux host? I'm interested in solutions that have been actually implemented (we've been having plenty of fun with "this should work" scenarios ).
Hi, I back up SQL Server 2000 and SQL server 2005 databases to hard disk using the SQL Server Backup Wizard and maintenance plans. Then, I copy the resulting backups to tape using third party tape backup software and compression by the backup software and hardware. I do not use the SQL Server Agent available for the third party backup software. Is this acceptable, or does the compression performed by the third party backup system introduce opportunities for database corruption or other negative effects?
I would like to know if anyone has a recommended method for having backups to tape while running log shipping. For example, is it possible to copy the transaction log backups used for log shipping to tape and apply them to a Full Database Restore from a 3rd Party Backup tool such as Veritas?
My goal is to be able to do a point-in-time restore from tape and still be able to use SQL Server 2005 Log Shipping.
Can we backup our cluster databases directly to tape using native backups (without using any third party tool) ? It's SQL Server 2012 two node Active/Passive cluster. One of the DB will be huge in size, hence checking if we can directly backup from the cluster instance to a tape.
For some reason my backups (Transaction log and full backups) have started failing. When looking at the job histoy for the step that failed it reports:
*****(0.011 MB/sec). [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 3014) Backup, CHECKALLOC, bulk copy, SELECT INTO, and file manipulation (such as CREATE FILE) operations on a database must be serialized. Reissue the statement after the current backup, CHECKALLOC, or file manipulation operation is completed. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3023) Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013). NOTE: The step was retried the requested number of times (3) without succeeding. The step failed.*****
I have tried running the SQL for the step manually and I get:
Backup, CHECKALLOC, bulk copy, SELECT INTO, and file manipulation (such as CREATE FILE) operations on a database must be serialized. Reissue the statement after the current backup, CHECKALLOC, or file manipulation operation is completed. Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 36 Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally.
The step is only determining what day of the week it is and putting it in to a '@bkupday' variable then: "BACKUP LOG [model] TO @bkupday WITH NOINIT , NOUNLOAD , NAME = N'Model Log Backup', NOSKIP , STATS = 10, DESCRIPTION = N'Model log backup', NOFORMAT" for each database and log.
This had been working fine, but for some reason has now started playing up. (trying to workout wether this ties in with when I started merge replication of one of the DBs)
Any one got any ideas as to what might be causing this as it's happened for a couple of nights now?
Hi, I have a scheduled maintenance plan that backs up my database (SQL 2000). The db is 108 Meg. Usually the backup files are around 89 Meg and the transaction log backups are around 4.5 Megs.
The problem is that every once a while the backup fails with the following error:
[Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000)] Error 3202: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Write on 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLBACKUPCRM_db_200312230100.BAK' failed, status = 112. See the SQL Server error log for more details. [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
What usually happens is that the last backup that has failed has a size of 9 or 8 Gigs!
My guess is that a backup file gets corrupt (the size increases to 8 Gigs) and the server runs out of space and won’t be able to do more backups. However I can’t figure out why the backup file size increases to and gets corrupt.
I have full backups scheduled weekly, differentails scheduled daily and tran log ackups scheduled for every 15 minutes.
The tran log backups only work for the first 40 minutes or so after the daily backup. Once the daily has occured, the tran backups will work again, but for only 40 minutes.
I run consistency checks on the db daily and there are no errors.
The error returned from the tran log backup is 'BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup'
On one of our SQL Server 2014 boxes each database has a copy-only full backup made every night, in addition to the maintenance plan schedule of a full backup weekly, daily differential backups and log backups.
When performing a PIT restore in SSMS the restore file list lists the most recent copy-only backup as the full backup to use, not the most recent plan full backup. I noticed that using SSMS 2008 to start a PIT restore on the 2014 box does not have this problem, and lists the correct restore file sequence (ignores the copy-only backups).
We are running a SQL Server 2008R2 64-bit database system on a Windows 2012 R2 64-bit Standard system. I have noticed in recent weeks that our differential backups periodically are taking longer than expected to complete. The usual amount of time is about one hour, but on several occasions, it has taken upwards to five hours. The nights when the job takes longer to complete are on Friday.
I did some checking online, and one possible reason for this issue is my scheduling the reindexing of the database on the morning of the Differential backup. For example, this past Friday the reindexing occurred at 1:00 AM with the Differential running at 10:00 PM that night.The article that I read suggested the reindexing, which takes several minutes, if that, to complete, should be scheduled to run just before the Full backup job.
The 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?
hi, We have a service provider that handles the SQL database for us. And every month we will receive a Tape backup of the updated database from them for in house development purpose.
Anyways, I tried to restore the Tape backup I recently received and I kept on getting this error message: "The media family on device 'Tape0' is incorrectly formed. SQL Server cannot process this media family. Backup or resotre operation terminating abnormally."
I have set the Complete Database backup and the Overwrite option for this particular restore. Please help, any idea is apperciated.
Hi, Does Any one know How to find out How much space left in a Tape Drive? Is it possible with Win nt OR Win 2000? or It required some special utility. Any one know please suggest, Thanks Nil.
Just for background info: I am trying to take a backup of a DB made from a Server(#1) located on a client site and restore to a server that is in house Server(#2). Both servers are running SQL Server 6.5 and all configuration settings are the same except Server(#1) has (DB Lib Ver 6.50.213) and Server(#2) has (DB Lib Ver 6.50.201).
When I try to restore the DAT tape (backup made from Server #1) onto Server #2 I get these errors in this order: 1st --[DB-Library] Unexpected EOF from SQL Server. Connection broken.-- 2nd --Error 605 [SQL Server] Attempt to fetch logical page 72915 in database 'DBname' belongs to object '0', not to object 'sysobjects'.--
Does anybody have any ideas and what could be causing these errors? Would the different DB-Library versions cause these errors?
I know the tape isn't corrupt because the tape can be used to restore on Server(#1).
I want to store 98.3, 0.4 or 103.4 like numbers in a SQL database, but I'm having a hard time selecting the correct data type. Also what should be the precision and scale. What is a precision and scale? Please help......
Does anyone know if it is at all possible to restore a single database from tape if no backup jobs have been ran or setup for this database. However, the server itself has been backuped to tape. So I would like to restore this database from the server tape backup. If so, how do I accomplish this?
Hi I Have 8 small databases around 10 to 30 MB each. I am taking tape backup. Full database backup Daily. Now problem i am facing that i am not able to schedule this process because when it complete one database backup, tape automatically come out. So due to this reason i am not able to schdule this job. If any one has solution for this please suggest. Thanks. Nil.
We have Dell Optiplex GX1 PCs with Seagate ST22000 IDE tape backup devices, running NT Workstation or NT Server and SQL 7.0 with SP1, NTSP5. SQL 6.5 will backup successfully to these devices, but SQL 7.0 will not. The most common error message is 18257, Device or media does not support ... 42000 Syntax error, permission violation, or other nonspecific error...
I am trying to backup a database to a tape. It works when it wants to. I get a 3013 error. The drive is fully functional. Seagate backup works fine. SQL Backup does not. I think it might be that the tape needs retensioning sometimes. Here is the sql statement: BACKUP DATABASE pubs TO TAPE='.ape0' WITH FORMAT. Is there a retension parameter I am failing to see?
I have a SQL Server 7.0 with and exteranl SCSI tape device. When I attempt to backup a database in EM the tape device is being greyed out.
I have add the backup device using sp_dumpdevice and made sure that it is in sysdevices table. It will not allow me to add this backup device from the drop down.
1. Why does EM not see this device ? 2. If I try to back this up using T-SQL will I be able to use the registared tape device.
I want to create a backup device for the tape drive. So I go in "Server Objects"=>"Backup Devices" and create a new device. Problem is: In "Destination" I can't select "Tape:".
The ntbackup.exe program recognizes the tape drive, but SQL2005 not.
I have this: -SQL2005 Enterprise edition 64bit. -Tape drive HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960.
Someone knows how I can create a backupdevice for the tape?
Thanks
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i have a tape drive where i backup database every weekends, and i have a tape which shows that set created and size column displays -0 bytes. what does that mean , i also want to know how much space is left in the tape drive so that i can backup accordingly
I have a SQL 2005 Server (SP1) running on Windows 2003 server machine. Now windows can detect the tape drive attached to the system as 'HP StorageWorks DLT VS160'. Even 'ntbackup' detects it and is able to backup data to the tape drive. However, SQL Server is unable to detect the tape drive. The tape does not show up in the Backup Devices in Server Objects and hence I'm unable to take backups directly to the tape via SQL Server. How do I get SQL 2005 to recognize the tape drive?
HiWe are running SQL 2000 Enterprice version with SP3a on a DellPoweedge 5600 server running Advance Server. It has Tape drivePowerVault 110T (DLT VS80 Tape Drive) & uses DLT tapeIV tapes. A DBmaintenance job had been specified to backup on to tape daily. I havefollowing issues;1.The backup job sometimes fails with the following error in Eventlog(Event ID:17055)3041: Backup failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE [UNIQRS]TO TAPE = N"\.Tape0 WITH NOINIT, NOUNLOAD, NOSKIP, STATS = 10,NOFORMAT. The job is specified with the Verification option.2. If I try to restore a succeeded backup it asks for a initial tapewith a past date which does not exists3. Is there a way to view the content of the tape & free space etc.4. It is recommended to put a disk backup & transfer it to tape usingWindows backup utility. Is there a way to automate this by initiatingthe Backup utility when the SQL finishes the disk backup.ThanksChirath
I am setting up a new SQL Server that has an external HP 920 SAS Ultrium tape drive attached to it via a p400 sas card.
I am running 2003 R2 x64 with 2005 SQL Server x64, and I am trying to set up my DB backup plan but for some reason I can't get SQL to recognize my tape drive, alhough it is listed in device manager.
I've got a new HP ML370 G4 Server 2003 SP1 with a fresh install of SQL 2005 SP1. I'm trying to create a backup device for the internal HP DAT 40 and tape is greyed out as an option. I have the newest HP software drivers and firmware. The tape drive is seen by Server 2003 device manager and by NTBACKUP. I can backup using that program. Why doesn't SQL 2005 see it? I tried a new HP Ultrium tape drive with the same results. Anyone else see this and can recommend a fix? TIA
I am trying to configure the backup device on SQL Server 2005. I cannot get the Tape device list. The Tape Device is attached physicaly to the server ! (IBM Ultrium-TD3 scsi). I can 'see' the device using Windows Backup; but I cannot even get the list of tapes on SQL Server.
