We have a job created by the maintenance job wizard that backs up the transaction logs for all of our databases on an hourly basis. At random intervals, one of the tranaction log backups will fail with the following message in the job history:
sqlmaint.exe failed. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 22029). The step failed.
The next scheduled transaction log backup will run fine the next hour. The sqlmaint.exe is present and executable. There are no additional messages in the SQL Server error log or SQL Agent error log. Any ideas what causes this random failure?
I am getting occasional failures of a SQL Server 7.0 complete backup to disk on a production database. The errors seem to indicate that another process has the disk file open at the time of the backup. The errors contain the following texts : -
'Cannot open backup device' 'Operating System Error=32 Process cannot access file because it is being used by another process'.
The only other process that should access the disk file is an ARCserveIT scheduled job to copy the disk backup to tape but this is completing long before.
We 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?
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.
I neglected to backup the transaction log as part of the process of backing up the database. Now i only have the backup file for the database and no transaction log backup. When i try to do a restore on the database, i get the error on a "tail log missing" message (which i'm assuming is that it's looking for the t-log backup?).
Is it possible to restore or even restore to a new database? I'm only looking to retreive data from 2 tables within the backup file.
I have a full backup and transaction log backup strategy for my test server. My transaction log backup is failing as some user must have run some nonlogged operation. Is there any way to find out what is causing transaction log backup to fail?
I have a problem w/ my Transaction Log Backup. The backup files continues to grow and grow and grow. I have created a new Transaction Log backup through EM, but instead of appending each backup to the existing backup file, I overwrite the existing backup file. My gut feeling is that this is not right. If it isn't, then how can I continue to backup my TL's w/o having the file growing at an astronomical pace?
Is there a possibility to recover a database up to the point of failure ? I have a database with a primary datafile and a transaction logfile. I have backup of the database and transaction log backups upto an hour before failure. But I also want to recover one hour data which is in the transaction log. I have lost my primary datafile.
Is there a way to recover ?
How do I backup the transaction log before starting restore ?
Hi friends, I have set up the Transaction Log backup on one server he was running fine for few hour later he failed for two times and then after full backup it is running fine. Can any one of shed some light on this issue. Error: Cannot allow BACKUP LOG because file 'ZTVData' has been subjected to nonlogged updates and cannot be rolled forward. Perform a full database, or differential database, backup. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 4213) Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013). The step failed.
I've set up 4 database maintenance plans for my databases. 1 for all system databases, and the other three for specific databases. they back up to a network drive on another computer.
The plans are set up to do complete backups every day and then transaction log backups every 15 minutes.
The complete backups work fine. They all create the backups on the network drive. The transaction log backups are only created for one of the databases though. All the others report "successful completion" but they don't actually create the backup file. I looked at the report created and it never has a step that backs up the transaction log. I compared the T-SQL code from the one transaction backup job that works to one that doesn't and all the commands are exactly the same (aside from different directories to save in to, job numbers, etc).
Does anyone have any idea what is going on? I've deleted the maintenance plans and recreated them to no avail. I've also created an on the side differential backup that works as well.
I am using ArcserveIT 2000 SQL Agent to backup my SQL Server 7.0 db. I perform a full backup (with archive on) every day. ArcserveIT backsup both database and transaction log files. 'Truncate log on chkpt' is set to False in the databases. If I don't use SQL server's backup command with trunc. log on chkpt to true, will the transaction log file ever get trimmed? Does a third party backup utility like ArcserveIT will do something similar to 'backup command' in SQL server 7. Anyone using ArcserveIT SQL Server 7.0 Agent, please comment. Thanks
Has anyone ever had an issue with a Transaction Log being backed up but not truncating? We’ve been having trouble with this and now have to truncate the log manually. Any information at this point will be useful. Thank you.
Hi, Can anybody help me in, When to take backup of transaction log and how to schedule it?
My database is in Full recovery mode with two log files. I am doing mass insertion, then i am getting the following error "The log file for database 'nags' is full. Back up the transaction log for the database to free up some log space." I have taken backup of transaction log. now also it is giving the same error.
Any suggestions how to handle to this situation, to prevent the above error.
What is the proper way to backup a transaction log for a database whose name contains a space. (I.E. DBname = Database Name). I am trying to execute a command, but it does not like the space in the database name. I have also tried wrapping the name in single quotes and parethesis to no avail.
We have a couple of databases in same server, and I set up the job on SQL server agent for backup transactions, a few dbs log backup successful, but a few are always failed, no error message be given, only can check the report --- "Backup can not be performed on database 'Agrdev'. This sub task is ignored ....," I checked all db property and set up , couldn't find out what's going on. Did anyone can help me?
Hi, I have error when i backup the transaction log of master and msdb database. I think there is an error because the model of this database is simple. can i modify the model and write full ?
I have another question, I have a db with 1 db file of 11Go, i have to create secondary files or not.
Hello!!I am relatively new to SQL and am having a problem. I have taken overa SQL 2000 db that did not have any backup plans scheduled for it. Icreated a maintenance plan that backs up the database every night andanother plan that backs up the system databases once a week. I ranboth these jobs successfully, but when I created a third plan tobackup the transaction log it fails with the following message:Executed as user: NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM. sqlmaint.exe failed. [SQLSTATE42000] (Error 22029). The step failed. I then executed the followingstatement: sp_grantlogin 'NT AuthoritySystem' which did not work.I still do not understand why I can't backup the log? The databasebacks up fine with no errors so it can't be a permission thing and Icreated the job with a maintenance plan so it has to be in fullrecovery mode. Right? How do I tell? Thank you for all yourresponses!!NS
Thanks a lot for all the replies. I'm trying to set up a job to do transaction log backup. I used the maintainence plan to create the job. the code is quite long and not very straight forward, I do not even see the BACKUP LOG .. command. Do people usually use maintainence plan for this purpose or they write their own script and then create the job?
Hi, I have one doubt about Transaction backup. I want to take backup of highly growing database. I will take full backup every 3 days, differential backup every 1 day and transaction backup every 6 hours.
Now my question is- When I take a transaction backup do it take backup of all transactions which are currently in progress and not committed in database? OR What are the chances of loosing transactions which are currently running on system while I take a backup?
We are experiencing problems with our transaction log backup. The follow error appears when we attempt the backup.
"Backup, CHECKALOC, bulk copy, SELECT INTO, and file manipulation (such as CREATE FILE) operations on a datbase must be serialized. Reissue the statement after the current backup, CHECKALLOC or the file manipulation operation is completed."
We turned on "Truncate Log on Checkpoint" and created an online backup. Then we turned off "Truncate Log on Checkpoint" and manually saved the transaction log to tape. We thought all was well until the scheduled job to backup the transaction log to tape brought back the same error.
I seem to have a problem with my SQL Server log backup system. First I was receiving alerts that the log file was filling up, so I increased it from 3Mb to 150Mb, but then I got another alert saying the same thing, later on I got an alert saying that the log backup had failed. I then decided to truncate the log and do a full backup after as suggested, however this did not work, I don't know if I am doing something wrong, this is really confusing and frustrating.
I have scheduled transaction log backups to occur every 15 minutes with database backups every sunday at 1.00AM and differential db backups every day at 1.30AM.
While viewing the job history of the transaction log backups through enterprise manager, I noticed that one transaction log backup had failed at 1.00AM on sunday. The error message was,
"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). The step failed. "
Please let me know what the error message implies. Will there be any problem if the transaction log backup takes place at the same time as the full database backup or diff. db backup?
If we choose "truncate log on checkpoint", then we cannot backup the transaction. May someone tell me what's the difference between them and the advantage over the the other.
My transaction log backup is failing with the following error: Does anyone know how I can fix it? (null) Microsoft (R) SQLMaint Utility (Unicode), Version 8.00.194 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation (null) Logged on to SQL Server as 'NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM' (trusted) Starting maintenance plan 'Maint Plan - TLogs' on 5/7/2001 8:18:11 AM Backup can not be performed on database. This sub task is ignored. (null) Thanks
hi, newby dba. have a maintenenace plan and job to do transactino log backup it shows as failed with event 208 from step 1. In the sql log it just says transaction log backed up .. .no errror. There is a file from the backup too as expected ... not sure if it is the correct size etc (only 80k) how do I check that? Saw a message on the web about quoted identifiers being off causing the maintenance proc to fail- add parameter -SupportComputedColumn to the end of the call. I have done this even though this may not be the cause.
I want to try it out to see if it works, but can I do a transaction log backup whilst users are on the database?
Any other opinions on how to get around the 208 error would be greatly apprciated.
I am trying to backup my Transaction Logs using T-SQL with the aid of a job. The problem I am running into is that I need it to backup every three hours and retain one days worth of transactional logs. This is the query I got so far.
BACKUP LOG CA001 TO DISK = 'S:AZTARGPCA001ca001_TRN_bkuplog.trn' with retaindays = 1
Within the DB Maintenace Plan1, the Transaction Log is being backup. But the Transaction Log backup fails with the following message in Event Veiwer...
SQL Server Scheduled Job 'Transaction Log Backup Job for DB Maintenance Plan 'DB Maintenance Plan1'' (0xC83E14E2E989D147985A1AF15BD81A84) - Status: Failed - Invoked on: 2003-12-29 23:00:00 - Message: The job failed. The Job was invoked by Schedule 6 (Schedule 1). The last step to run was step 1 (Step 1).
The DataBase backup finishes. The Transaction does not. Can't find anything wrong. Help! Thanks...dmc
