Master DB Backup File Issue
May 21, 2004I have my master database with 10 MB datafile and 4 MB log file,But my backup file for the master DB is 11 GB in size.How could it possible.
Can i delete that backup and create a newone...
Thanks.
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Backup Master Key, Cannot Write Into File 'c: Empmaster'. Verify That You Have Write Permissions, That The File Path Is Valid.
Jul 12, 2006Hi,
I tried to backup the master key by the following syntax :
OPEN MASTER KEY DECRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'mypassword'
BACKUP MASTER KEY TO FILE = 'c: empmaster' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'mypassword'
but it failed and i got the following message:
Cannot write into file 'c: empmaster'. Verify that you have write permissions, that the file path is valid, and that the file does not already exist.
NB: I am using the "sa" user to execute this command.
I know that we have a security permission issue , but where and how ?
Regards,
Tarek Ghazali
SQL Server MVP
Backup Master
Apr 17, 2007im performing a backup on the master and i receive this error
"backup database permission denied in database master"
anyone input will be appreaciated.
Cannot Backup Log Of Master
Mar 23, 2006Hi,
Server: Msg 4212, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot back up the log of the master database. Use BACKUP DATABASE instead.
The recovery mode is set to full. Why am I not able to back up the log of master?
Thanks.
Master DB Won't Backup W/MaintPlan
Oct 25, 2001Environment: 2 different SQL 2000 servers both with service Pack 1 installed. OS is NT5/Windows 2000 server. Dell 4300 dual processor Servers.
Problem: When I create a maintenance plan to backup the system databases only the model will be backed up. (The model & the msdb are skipped). This occurs whether I select the 'System Databases Only' option, or whether I explicitly select each individual database (from the first page of the Create New Maint Plan Wizard). I can back up the master and msdb manually. But, I cannot get it done through creating a maintenance plan. I find nothing in the SQL Errorlog to explain why this is failing.
Do you have a solution? Even any suggestions? Most appreciated!
Mark Blackburn
Consultant to
California Department of Parks & Rec
Sacramento, CA
mblackburn@parks.ca.gov
-or-
mark_blackburn@yahoo.com
Thanks!
What Will Be A Good Way To Backup Master Db?
Mar 9, 2005Currently, I have set up maintenance plan to backup all the databases and I am only the most recent copies. This works very good for me on most of the databases. However, I am having a potential problem with backing up master database.
Based on what I know, I cannot perform a restore on master database. So I am wondering if anyone is able to advise me on a good method to backup the master database and restore it when it needs to be.
Thank you.
Master Log Backup Issue
May 20, 2008We run a script to check the blocking issues every morning. We find a LogBack up job for master db running everyday. But the Backup team doesn't see it on their systems. The backup team says, they are not running any backup job . But this backup job shows up in the process Info. So, we manually kill it everyday. It takes a lot of wait time. We can't find where it comes from ?
Below is the info from the Process Info Page
Process ID : 86
User: ABCAdmistrator
Database: Master
Status: Runnable
Open Transactions: 0
Command: Backup Log
Application: Symantec Backup Exec for Windows
Wait Time: 42600844
WaitType: NetworkIO
CPU : 0
Physical IO: 12
memory Used: 1
Login Time: 5/19/2008 10:04:53 PM
Host: XYZ
Network Library : LPC
Network Address: 0015C58947C3
Blocked by : 0
Blocking : 0
This is the info from the Process details
BACKUP LOG [abc_xyc] TO virtual_device = 'abc_xyz_00__bfbdb0fa_9b94_4392_8ce0_0719ad2a00c5_ ' WITH NO_TRUNCATE
Master DB Properties
Size: 71MB
Space Available : 17MB
No of users: 49
Data File location: c:ProgramFilesMicrosoftSQLserverMSSQLdatamast er.mdf
Automatically grow file (enabled) 10%
Transaction Log File: c:ProgramFilesMicrosoftSQLserverMSSQLdatamast log.ldf
Automatically grow file (enabled) 10%
Reocovery Model (Master): Simple
Auto update stats, and Auto create stats enabled.
Please let me know if any one knows what the problem was??
Thanks
Rahul
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Feb 18, 2004Hi,
On a large production SQL servers how often should the Master and MSDB Backups be performed?
We currently do one every night but I am thinking this is overkill, would once a week be sufficient?
Cheers
Backup - Restore Of Master Problem
Apr 22, 1999I am trying to replicate our production SQL 6.5 environment on an isolated network for Y2K testing. I have installed SQL 6.5 on the test server, then ran sp_help_revdatabase on the production server to generate scripts for recreating the databases for testing. I used a zip drive to move dumps of the user databases from production to test. I now need to move over data from the master db, to recreate security and logins. But I don't think I can simply do a dump and restore, as I am not creating copies of all the production databases from our production server, just a few of them. Does anyone have a suggestion for a procedure to replicate the info I need from our production master database? Am I correct that restoring a dump of our production master database to the Y2K environment would be inappropriate?
Please advise.
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Physio-Control Corp.
Master Transaction Log Backup Fails
Nov 9, 2004:eek:
Okay. I changed the times that the transaction logs are backed up, via the built in maintenance schedule. It was then that I started to get failures only on the Transaction log backup for the master. The error that I get from the history log is Backup can not be performed on this database. This sub task is ignored. If I look in the file that is saved to disk :
Starting maintenance plan 'DB Maintenance Plan1' on 09/11/2004 02:30:00
Backup can not be performed on database 'master'. This sub task is ignored.
[1] Database onyx: Transaction Log Backup...
Destination: [R:BACKUPonyxonyx_tlog_200411090230.TRN]
** Execution Time: 0 hrs, 0 mins, 23 secs **
[2] Database onyx: Verifying Backup...
** Execution Time: 0 hrs, 0 mins, 8 secs **
Deleting old text reports... 1 file(s) deleted.
End of maintenance plan 'DB Maintenance Plan1' on 09/11/2004 02:30:31
SQLMAINT.EXE Process Exit Code: 1 (Failed)
I changed the backup back to its original time as this was the only change made. This has not resolved the problem. As I am new to SQL and still finding my feet All the other SQL maintenance plans that I changed are working fine.
Thanks
Steve
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Nov 28, 2012Version: 10.00.1600 (I believe the first 2008 release)
I made a backup from the master, model and msdb system tables. Now I travelled to a different country, and I only have the backups and would like to access them. I was able to restore the master db to a new installation of mssql but, it wont start. I do know why: as I read after I quickly realised that master backups take the accounts, serverID, groups, directory structure, and lots of other things.Basically I have no chance of doing a master restore. The question here: Is there any way of getting my data out from the master backup file (thats where my stuff is)? I'm thinking of "restoring" it to a separate non-master db, table, anything. I know now that I did the most stupidest thing ever, but believe me I don't want the last half years work to just disappear.
Restore Master Database From Backup
Feb 24, 2004I wish to restore master database which was located on "e:" on my server.
the restored copy is residing on "f:"
when i restore the backup and restart, the server does not start.
is there any way to avoid this and perform the restoration succesfully.
or the process followed by me is wrong/incomplete.
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Mar 25, 2008
Hello,
My master database (MS SQL 2005) has simple recovery model, however, when performing diff backup of "all databases", I am getting the following error:
Executing the query "BACKUP DATABASE [master] TO DISK = N'X:\Database Backups\diff backups\master\master_backup_200803251235.bak' WITH DIFFERENTIAL , NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'master_backup_20080325123514', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
" failed with the following error: "You can only perform a full backup of the master database. Use BACKUP DATABASE to back up the entire master database.
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
If I choose to back up only "All user databases", then it performs just fine. Why I cannot run diff backup of master?
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Oct 17, 2006Newbie to backups here. I'm trying to setup a Maintenence Plan for backing up the system tables. For some reason the Differential backup on the Master table is failing.
Can you NOT run differential backups on the Master table?
Thanks.
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Program location:
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Backup.SqlBackup(Server srv)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlManagerUI.BackupPropOptions.OnRunNow(Object sender)
Backup Options were set to:
Back up to the existing media set
Overwrite all existing backup sets
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