Hi,
I have a database on sqlserver 2005.I usually take a full db backup and sequential transaction log backups and append each of the backups it to a backup file.Now if i want to copy my second transaction log file to a specific folder on my server.Do we have any procedure to do it.
Regards
Arvind L
Hi All,
I got a job which runs every day this T-SQL code:
BACKUP DATABASE [myDB] TO DISK = N'f:BACKUPSDailymyBKUP.bak' WITH NOINIT , NOUNLOAD , NAME = N'mybackup', NOSKIP , STATS = 10, NOFORMAT
It runs just fine but in append Mode (the default one); the bak file is being taped every night, so I would like to overwrite it, in order it not to become huge after a few time, but I can't seem to find a clear way to do this.
Any help or pointing would be appreciated!
Cheers,
Giovanni
At one of our client side a wired log shipping issues has come up.while monitoring those two server i noticed that although log-shipping report says both server are in sync, report displays information related to both backup and restore , it doesn't shows information related to copy that is when was last file copied and last file copy column is showed blank. Same is when i execute proc "sp_help_log_shipping_monitor" . I get same result ...
When i expand copy job history to analyse its what i found is although job has executed successfully , but in depth reading each steps says that no .trn file was copied .
My copy directory is at secondary server itself where .trn files are placed.And from this location itself files are begin restored.
SQL server and agent on both servers are run by same domain account ....
I'm using the methods of the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo namespace within a .NET application to create a backup file from a SQLEXPRESS database. I can then restore the database from that backup device using methods in the same namespace. Here is a snippet from the restore code:
srv = New Server("MYPCSQLEXPRESS")
db = srv.Databases("washmaster")
Dim bdi As New BackupDeviceItem(BackupFileName, DeviceType.File)
Dim recoverymod As RecoveryModel
recoverymod = db.DatabaseOptions.RecoveryModel
rs.NoRecovery = False
rs.Devices.Add(bdi)
rs.Database = "washmaster"
rs.ReplaceDatabase = True
srv.KillAllProcesses("washmaster")
rs.SqlRestore(srv)
This works great as long as I used one of the backup files that I created directly on the disk. However, my application has a utility that allows the user to copy the backup files onto another drive, such as a CD or a thumb drive and when I try to restore from the copy of the backup, I get the following exception:
....Cannot open backup device..[filename]...Operating system error 5(Access is denied.)
The reason I get this error is that the "NETWORK SERVICE" account was removed from the file permissions when the file was copied.
How can I copy a backup to another drive and preserve the "NETWORK SERVICE" account? If I can't do that, is it wise to try to add the account back to the file before using it to restore or is there a better way?
Thanks,
SJonesy
We have a file where my co-employee backup's our database. The problem is that the file is getting too large because he always use APPEND when he backup's. Is there a way to delete some of the appended backup instances?
Thank you very much for your help.
hi all!
appending new backup on a same device - yes or no?
if somebody can tell me, is ok to constantly create new backus on a same device? i'm asking that, because in that case, defice file it will grow and grow.
is there any limit or suggestions how many appending is recomended, cause of file growth?
tnx in adv!
hello my freands
i attached my database on 3 computer those are stand alone.
i get backup form those separately .
now,i have 3 backup files,with name:
"bkcomputer1.bak","bkcomputer2.bak" and "bkcomputer3.bak"
i want merge these,and make new file with new name "master"
and restore to new computer
my code for restor is:
restore database [mydatabase] from disk='c:kupcomputer1.bak'
restore database [mydatabase] from disk='c:kupcomputer2.bak'
restore database [mydatabase] from disk='c:kupcomputer3.bak'
but this way is false,because each restore deleted structure and data old data base,therefore after compile 3 over line,i have only data of computer3
please help me....
thanx
M.O.H.I.N
Hi All:Being a bit of a nube to MSSQL I could use a little advice. This is thesituation.A client's HDD became full so I backed up, deleted then recreated a blankdatabase (they said they didn't need the stored data).They have now deceided that they want the data again.My plan is to restore the database to a second volume so it can grow as muchas is needed, however, there is now data in the second instance that wouldneed importing to the restored DB.I can restore the backed up db with a different name and reconfigure thesoftware that accesses it but what would be the best method to append therestored DB with the data in the current instance of said DB? Both DBs areidentical.TIAMP
View 1 Replies View RelatedLook at this scenario
1- I have created a backup device
2- I have created a maintenance plan full backup and run it - with overwrite option on the backup device
3- I have created a maintenance plan differential backup and run it with append option on the same file of backup device
4- I have created a maintenance plan log backup with append option on the same backup device
When I made restore database from the backup device i found three files the full and differential and log backup
5- I ran again the differential backup maintenance plan ( suppose to be ran everyday night )
when i made restore database I found only two backups the full and the last differential !!!
what I want to do is to take a full backup every week , append differential backup everyday and append log backup every hour
when I ran the last differential backup it erased the first differential and log backups, why is this happening and how to apply this scenario and keep the all differential backups on the same backup device .
I have the need to delete old backup files via TSQL job. Found this solution online:
PushD "
emoteservershareDIFF" &&(
forfiles -m *DIFF*.sqb -d -1 -c "cmd /c del /q @path"
) & PopD
It works remotely if I run it via command prompt. But when I add this to a TSQL job on my remote SQL instance, it runs without deleting anything. What I'm missing?
I've written a custom script to delete backup files from location. But unable to modify now to count the number of files are deleted. How to modify the script...
/* Script to delete older than N days backup from a specific directory */
USE [db_admin]
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('usp_DeleteBackup', 'P') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROC usp_DeleteBackup
GO
[Code] .....
I have created an Integration Services package on my development machine. The package contains a configuration file witch let's say is stored in c:projectsMyIntegrationServicesProjectmyConfigfile.dtsConfig (on my dev machine).
Then I have another "Production" machine where I import the SSIS package into an SQL database. I then create an sql-job with only one step, to run my SSIS package. This works fine if I configure the step to be an "SQL Integration services package" and configure it to use my configurationfile.
However I would like to configure this package as a CmdExec step. In the commandline, I specify /CONFIGFILE "d:....myConfigfile.dtsConfig" (the correct path on the prod machine). But it seems to be ignored, because when I execute the package I get an error telling me that the configuretion file c:projectsMyIntegrationServicesProjectmyConfigfile.dtsConfig cannot be found.
What I try to say is, it seems like it ignors the config-file I specify on the command-line and tries to reach the config-file on a location that's probably stored somewhere in the SSIS package from the time it was created on my development machine.
Is there a way around this?
We have a SQL Server 7.0 database running with trunc. log on chkpt andselect into/bulkcopy checked and need to develop a backup strategy.One of our DBAs insists that since the transaction log is beingtruncated, we can't do a hot backup (a FULL backup in multiuser mode)because if a transaction comes through during the backup it will leavethe backup in an inconsistent state. I'm skeptical, but I don't knowhow SQL Server 7 avoids this problem.If SQL 7 is not truncating the transaction log, it uses thetransaction log to roll forward changes that occurred during thebackup. Obviously if it's truncating the log it must have some way toapply these transactions anyway (such as not doing a checkpoint duringthe backup, backing up the log at each checkpoint, etc.).Can anyone confirm that a hot backup will be valid when trunc. log onchkpt is checked? Does anyone know how SQL 7 accomplishes this?Thanks!James
View 3 Replies View RelatedHello ,Is it possible/recommended to do SQL server instance backups in Singleuser mode ?Thanks in advance,atv
View 5 Replies View RelatedDatabase is in suspect mode and I cant get it out. Customer does not have a backup.........
getting Errors starting
Analysis of database 'SBM01' (7) is 100% complete (approximately 0 more seconds)
ex_raise2: Exception raised, major=79, minor=87, severity=22, attempting to create symptom dump
Error: 7987, Severity: 22, State: 1
A possible database consistency problem has been detected on database 'SBM01'. DBCC CHECKDB and DBCC CHECKCATALOG should be run on database 'SBM01'.
ex_raise2: Exception raised, major=79, minor=87, severity=25, attempting to create symptom dump
Using 'dbghelp.dll' version '4.0.5'
*Dump thread - spid = 51, PSS = 0x19b591e0, EC = 0x19b59510
*
* User initiated stack dump. This is not a server exception dump.
Error: 3314, Severity: 21, State: 3
Error while undoing logged operation in database 'SBM01'. Error at log record ID (222:9976:477)..
Error: 9004, Severity: 23, State: 2
An error occurred while processing the log for database 'SBM01'..
Error: 3414, Severity: 21, State: 1
Database 'SBM01' (database ID 7) could not recover. Contact Technical Support..
Currently we use a SQL maintenance plan to do a full backup of all our databases daily (about 40 databases on our production server). As you can imagine, this eats up disk space quickly so currently we manually zip the backup files and/or move them to an archive drive. I considered writing an application to walk through the backup folder structure and zip any .bak file it finds, but I know there are some third party tools out there that will backup/restore a MS SQL database.
I was wondering if any of these also zip the backups once they are created. Any recommendations or suggestions are welcome.
I scheduled automatic backup process but its only showing backup of the only one .sql file in the backup folder. Other created .sql files are not backed up. Why is it so?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHi:
This question came to me from a friend and I don't have a lot of details so I apologize in advance. I thought it might be worth a shot to ask here since I couldn't find anything on point in the MS help or KB. A SQL Server 7 database running on an NT 4.0 box is having a full database backup nightly. The backup routine is pretty standard, created using the Maintenance Wizard. It backs up two databases on the server. The problem is that when folks come into work in the AM, the databases are in Single-User mode and someone has to go in and change this. Is this normal behavior? My (admittedly limited) understanding of SQL 7 backups is that they are relatively transparent, and Single User mode is not necessary. You can operate normally other than you can't to any unlogged txn's while the backup is running. They have not done anything explicit to put the databases in Single-user mode when the backup begins. Any ideas how to prevent this from happening? (Or how to automate the switch out of Single-user mode when the backup is completed?)
Thanks!
Hi!
I have a problem with databases that are left in single user mode after transaction log backup.
I have a database maintenance plan job that backs up the transaction log and checks data and index linkage every hour.
Sometimes the job fails and when I look in the report file it says that it has tred to put the database in single user mode and failed because the database is in use and then in the next step it says that it cannot perform the operation because there already is a user in the database.
Why is the database put in single user mode?
What can I do to avoid finding my databases in single user mode?
Below is a part of the report file:
[Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000)] Error 15089: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot change the 'single user' option of a database while another user is in the database.
[1] Database BV Produktion: Check Data and Index Linkage...
** Execution Time: 0 hrs, 0 mins, 1 secs **
[2] Database BV Projektering: Check Data and Index Linkage...
[Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000)] Error 924: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Database 'BV Projektering' is already open and can only have one user at a time.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Only the owner of object 'dms_user' can run DBCC CHECKTABLE on it.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Database 'BV Projektering' is already open and can only have one user at a time.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
The following errors were found:
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Database 'BV Projektering' is already open and can only have one user at a time.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Only the owner of object 'dms_user' can run DBCC CHECKTABLE on it.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Database 'BV Projektering' is already open and can only have one user at a time.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
** Execution Time: 0 hrs, 0 mins, 9 secs **
I have a DB, MDF is about 170GB, log 200GB. When I do a restore of it, the backup takes about 20 minutes to get to 100% but then it just stays there in Restoring Mode.
I have specified the WITH RECOVERY option.
What is happening that it doesn't commit the backup for some reason?
Hello ,
Is it possible to do the backup of SQL server instance in a Single user mode ?
What is the recommended practice ?
Thanks in advance,
atv
When we do a full database backup manually, we are seeing the trn file reflect the current date/time, but we are not seeing the mdf reflect the new date/time. And we are not seeing the transaction log file decrease in size. the recovery mode is set to full, do we need to change to simple to see both the mdf being backup'ed?
View 5 Replies View RelatedDear All,
I know the basic defiinition of these two options, but i am not very clear why would someone choose one over another,
currently I am using Append to Media option, and every day backup, I see my backup files growing in size.
can someone give me nice example about these two options,
Thanks,
Hi there - can anyone advise on the following issue. We have recently performed some server side tracing on a particular SQL instance over 24hr period. We are now attempting to load these into a database for analysis. Here lies the problem.
When we are loading the profiler trace files (one at a time) into the database the transaction log is growing at an excessive rate. Even though the database is in SIMPLE mode.
We are loading the traces using the command:
INSERT INTO sqlTableToLoad
SELECT * FROM ::fn_trace_gettable('MytraceFileName', DEFAULT)
Can anyone advise how we could possibly get round this issue as we're running out of space due to the transaction log.
Thanks
Hi,
I have a database that is in the SQL Server 2000 compatability mode on my SQL 2005 server. I am trying to restore a backup of this database on my SQL Server 2000 database on another server and keep getting strange messages. First trying Red-Gate and then plain SQL Server with no luck.
It seems as I remember that the 7.0 and 2000 compatibility issue between backups did not arise when the compatibility mode was set to 7.0.
Is this "planned" behavior or an "undocumented feature"??? Anyone else have success doing this?
Thanks,
John Campbell
I have a small, ~10GB SQL 2008 R2 database, that was setup with simple recovery. We do full backup each night at midnight when no one is using the database. Is there any problems with doing differential backups during the day when users may be writing to the database? Could I even do hourly differential backups while users are using the database? I'm conflicted about switching over to full recovery mode and using transaction logs to have the ability restore data between backups. If I can do a couple daily differential backups while users are using the database during the day, in addition to our nightly full backups, than I live with simple recovery mode.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi everyone,
I want to do sql db backup.But how can I backup db to split backup files? The reason I want to split the backup file is becasue single file size is too big and I want to write to dvd.
any idea or scripts?
cheers
Hi,
We have a point of sale application (C# .NET 2.0) and a Sql Server 2005 database back end.
Our customers are concerned that employees could create a backup of the SQL Server database (or even of the MDF file) and use it to steel customer data.
Very often, the application is running on a single PC in a shop using Sql Server Express Edition 2005 under Windows XP. The users usually log on as local administrator. It's hard for us to force our customers to change their local security policies.
Ideally, I would like some form of security mechanism that prevents a backup from being restored on to another PC without either a password or some other form of authentication.
Is this possible?
Regards,
Sigol.
Hi all,
I restored a backup of a database running SQL Server in W2K to my own laptop (Windows XP) for report testing pourposes. The restore worked perfectly, but when I ran the store procedure that returns my "report" set I noticed that several of the fields within the result set are different, the number of rows and customers are a perfect match to the production report. The fields that are different are calculated fields that invoque a user defined function, which again are exactly the same on both databases. I tried dropping the stored procedure and the 4 functions and recreating them again but I get the same results, the number of rows, the customers and all "non" function calculated fields are perfect, only the fields calculated with the functions are wrong.
Has anybody seen this behavior?
Thanks for your help
Luis Torres
I got a mdf file from my co-workerwho just stopped SQL server and delete ldf fileand give me a mdf file.if it was detached, it would work finebut it was just copied.Is there any way to attach this mdf file?I tried sp_attach_db and sp_attach_single_file_dband both failed.thanks,
View 4 Replies View RelatedI made a copy of a database "sac_prod" and named the new copy "vgs_prod". Now, when I do a backup of the new database, it still shows the name of the original. Is there any way to change this so it will be the same as the new database name?Here is the BACKUP script:BACKUPdatabase vgs_prod TODISK='\sac-srvr1data$TechnicalSharedProductionSQLBackup LasVegasvgs_prod_CopyOnly.BAK' with COPY_ONLYHere is the messages I received from this BACKUP:Processed 1752 pages for database 'vgs_prod', file 'sac_prod' on file 1.Processed 6 pages for database 'vgs_prod', file 'sac_prod_log' on file 1.BACKUP DATABASE successfully processed 1758 pages in 0.412 seconds (34.955 MB/sec). I would like to change the file 'sac_prod' to be 'vgs_prod' in lines 1 and 2 just above. Thanks,
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis is a really really odd problem.
Here's the situation. I've got a DB with several tables. Let's pick out two of those tables from the bunch.. they both have approx 2500 rows in them. I take one and duplicate it (right click, All Tasks->Export Data, copy tables, etc) and it duplicates just fine into another DB.
Now, the second table.. takes FOREVER. Yet it has the same amount of rows in it! And this is a flat table export.. I'm not including dependent objects or anything like that.
Not to mention this is slow, but when I use Red-Gate SQL Data Compare, it gets stuck when it hits this specific table.
Anyone have any idea what would cause this?
Hi,
I recently encountered an error when I created several copies of one package.
It's always nearly the same package with small modifications. I call this packages from a parent package which is part of our datawarehouseing-framework.
The problem is, when copying a packages or using a packages as template the packages' IDs and Task's-IDs are the same. And this isn't only an issue concerning logging!! :
When the parent package calls one of the copied packages the first task is executed in every package parallely. Furthermore ... when I for example set a breakpoint on a data transformation task in one of the packages, the breakpoint is set in all packages on the same task! This is resulting in strange errors because the tasks-states and variable values seem to get mixed up.
Unfortunately there is only a possibility to change the package's ID, but the IDs of tasks are readonly!
One solution is, to create a new package and copy all the tasks to the new package which creates new IDs, but doing so, I have to manually recreate a long list of variables, all the configurations, all the connection-managers once again. Furthermore I loose the layout of tasks.
I found some posts about it here
http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.dts/browse_thread/thread/6f85a31ea190608a/0eae312aa8440cf8?lnk=gst&q=pitfall&rnum=1&hl=de#0eae312aa8440cf8 or
http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.dts/browse_thread/thread/760093d58bf6ccb5/32ced2f2020ef3f7?lnk=st&q=data+flow+task+id+copy&rnum=2&hl=de#32ced2f2020ef3f7
saying the issue will be fixed by SP2, but now I don't see any comment on it in the CTP of Service Pack 2.
Is there any solution to this problem or official roadmap about a fix from Microsoft??
Greetings Monte