I've a SQL Server Express 2012 DB that I need to backup and restore on a different machine.I know that in the past someone performed full db and logs backup with sqlcmd.exe and I found some of this backup files but not all of them.In the last 6 months no backups has been taken.What is the right procedure I need to follow in order to save a backup of this DB and restore it on different machine withou losing data?
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If you make a mistake it is not fun removing it. Sometimes it corrupts the machine and it is difficult to uninstall since there is not an Oracle Universal installer for Oracle 11g.If you install the 32 bit before the 64 you mess up the machine.how to create a restore point.
Using 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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I and my company have a backup history script from where can get the history but I am need of script to find out the databases that were not backed up only on Saturday and Sunday's.
Dear All,
replication is not working for me now, how can i find the old snapshots and resore them to the present snapshot?
Arnav
Even you learn 1%, Learn it with 100% confidence.
Hi everyone,
I have a problem with my MS SQL Server 2000 (SP2). My task is to restore a backup from a database on another computer.
The server makes a backup everyday. If this server gets a hardware problem there must be a chance to replace it by another server which is made by the backup files.
In this scenario I don't have the possibility to copy the whole folder of the old server.
Is it possible to restore the bakup so that the new server looks like the old one?
Thanks for every response.
Hello,
Can anyone tell me the SQL statement to restore an existing backup to an existing database?
Thanks in advance.
Our DBs are set up to do a full backup once a day (late at night) and then transaction log backups during the day at shorter intervals.
I want to setup a dev database on the same server. I want this database to be an automatically restored copy of the live database. So every night, after the full backup of the live DB, I want to restore the live DB to this dev DB.
Can this be automated? Can the restore automatically stop the dev database in case some open connections exist?
Is there a better way to do this?
can anyone explain me how can i make a DB backup in sql express 2005 ?
The sql express instance and my web aplication are running on the same server.
I need a script for directly execute it (and if possible also to restore the DB ) from my web aplication.
other question:
any idea how can i tell to sql express to do the backup automatically every day?
I make two full backups on Oct 1 and Oct 10. I want to restore the server to a state in Oct 5. So I just do as follows:
1.Perform a transaction log backup on the server on Oct 23. I have never backup transaction log in the past.
2. Restore the server with Oct 1 full backup with NORECOVERY option.
3.Try to restore to the point at Oct 5 12:00, with the transaction log.
But the restore fails and SQL Server said the transaction log does not contain the point. The point is too early. Why? Also my .LDF file is about 13G, but the transaction log backup is only 200MB. Why?
So I'm testing some things in our new servers and was trying to restore a database from some striped backup sets. We have 4 files for our backups and restoring the FULL backups with no recovery worked beautifully via SSMS. But when I tried to restore the differentials (also striped across 4 files), the GUI gave me this error:
Unable to create restore plan due to break in the LSN chain.
How to locate when the break happened and I came across this article about how this is an SSMS 2012 bug.
So I tried the advice in this article to attempt a restore via Files and Filegroups, and ended up with the below error:
EDIT: Picture is attached if it is not showing in post.
I was able to restore via T-SQL, but I want to also be able to restore through the GUI.
Hi all.
First, sorry about my poor english.
I have a database which above 6 gb data and i have droped all table in my database.
I try to restore from log file but my database is set to simple backup and auto shrink so log file doesn't help anymore.
I have used some software to recovery from log file too but useless.
My only hope right now is mdf file.
Please help me. How could i restore my mdf file to state before i droped tables.
Thanks
Hi
I am new to Forum. So not sure if i am posting my problem uner the right topic.
We have a sql server 2005 enterprise edition 4 way cluster on windows 2003 advance server.
I am logshipping these database to a different server at a different location.
My logshipping went fine until one the cluster server failed and the server instance failed over to another node.
The backup that happened around that time got copied over to the secondary by the copy job.
The log file that got copied to the secondary server tried restoring and i think it failed int he middle of restoring it.
(You would think that the sql would knoe if the backup is in complete and will move on to the next file. Not sure what happened there.)
There is no indication of the *.TUF file in the directory where i have the log files.
I tried restoring it manually and i got the following error
Msg 4319, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
A previous restore operation was interrupted and did not complete processing on file 'sessionlog1'. Either restore the backup set that was interrupted or restart the restore sequence.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally.
I looked in the msdb..log_shipping_secondary_databases and looked for the last file that it restored and tried restoring it again with the following restore command by removing and adding some of the keywords that you see after the "WITH" clause.
MSFT do not recommand to use continne_after_error unless its absolutley necessary. I stilll get the above error.
restore log sessiondata
from disk = 'I:sql13qasmlogssessiondatasessiondata_20070901124516.trn'
with restart, CONTINUE_AFTER_ERROR, norecovery
When i add the restart int he with clause,
The restart-checkpoint file 'J:Microsoft SQL ServerMSSQL.5MSSQLBackupsessiondata.CKP' was not found. The RESTORE command will continue from the beginning as if RESTART had not been specified.
Msg 4319, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
A previous restore operation was interrupted and did not complete processing on file 'sessionlog1'. Either restore the backup set that was interrupted or restart the restore sequence.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally.
I checked it the backup directory and i can't locate the .CKP file.
Does anyone ever come accross this issue?
Is there anyother way i could recover this DB in a standby or norecovery mode.
Any kind of help to resolve this issue (beside copy the full backup and redo the whole log-shipping process again) would be appreciated. sicne my primary and secondary server are totally ina different location, i need to ship a tape, if i need a full backup. This is the 3rd time its happening on that cluster. its frustrating to ship a tape everytime this happens.
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 RelatedI am looking for a SQL Backup/Restore tools which can restore multiple environments. Here is high level requirements.
1. We have 4 DBs, range from 1 TB - 1.5 TB Each Database. When we restore to QA, DEV, or Staging, we usually restore 4 of them.
2. I am looking for the speed to complete restoring between 1 - 2 hours for 4 DBs.
I am evaluating the Dephix Software but the setup is very complex and its given us a lot of issues with Windows Authentions, and failure in the middle of the backup. I used Guess Software many years ago but can't find it on the web site any more. Speed is very important for us mean complete restoring as fast as possible. We are on SQL 2012 and SQL 2008 R2.We are currently using NETAPP Technology and I have Redgate Backup Tool but I am mainly looking for fast Restore Process.
I make two full backups on Oct 1 and Oct 10. I want to restore the server to a state in Oct 5. So I just do as follows:
Perform a transaction log backup on the server on Oct 23. I have never backup transaction log in the past. Restore the server with Oct 1 full backup with NORECOVERY option.Try to restore to the point at Oct 5 12:00, with the transaction log.
But the restore fails and SQL Server said the transaction log does not contain the point. The point is too early. Why? Also my .LDF file is about 13G, but the transaction log backup is only 200MB. Why?
how to restore database backups with different recovery fork. I have 1-full backup 2-diff backups and 10-tran backups. My prod database in mirror, so after error, switched to mirror with "allow_data_loss" option. And now I have full and diff backup with one recovery fork GUID and other backups with another GUID.So the question is, how to restore all this backups if in middle of restoration will be different recovery fork.Tryed to restore log backups with new fork guid and got error:This backup set cannot be applied because it is on a recovery path that is inconsistent with the database. The recovery path is the sequence of data and log backups that have brought the database to a particular recovery point. Find a compatible backup to restore, or restore the rest of the database to match a recovery point within this backup set, which will restore the database to a different point in time.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm not sure when it started, but...
It seems that very recently, the backups made during a nightly ArcServe tape backup procedure are showing up in the restore window on our SQL server. We don't want that! The application group makes it's own backup's to disk, and we want to see only them in the restore window.
(The tape ackup is a redudnant process, to be used if one of our on-hand disk backups are bad or non-existent, or if the DB needs to be recovered from an older date.)
What made the ArcServe files show up? How can we stop SQL server from thinking tyhat they are part of the backup set we are conccerned with?
Thanks.
MichaelGG
We had our backups backing up to the server where the databases reside. Now I modified the backups to backup to a file share. Now when we try to restore from the file share the restore fails, so we have to copy the backup to a drive on the server and recover for there. Should I be able to restore directly from the file share (using the gui)? Do I need to change something else to modify the default backup drive?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI make two full backups on Oct 1 and Oct 10. I want to restore the server to a state in Oct 5. So I just do as follows:
1.Perform a transaction log backup on the server on Oct 23. I have never backup transaction log in the past.
2. Restore the server with Oct 1 full backup with NORECOVERY option.
3.Try to restore to the point at Oct 5 12:00, with the transaction log.
But the restore fails and SQL Server said the transaction log does not contain the point. The point is too early. Why? Also my .LDF file is about 13G, but the transaction log backup is only 200MB. Why?
I'm working on a restore procedure for the case where all MDF filesare missing, but the LDF files are all intact. A full backup is doneevery 24 hours, and a log backup is done every 3 hours. Afterrestoring the last full + log backups, is it at all possible to usethe LDF files to recover data from that point up to a newer point intime?I've found a post which explains how to do this on SQL Server 2000<http://groups.google.com/group/comp...s.ms-sqlserver/browse_thread/thread/3ef5c7cbc0a83334/f3b0c70811d35ed7>, but step 4fails with the following error message:BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current databasebackup.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to test out a restore scenario for a large database. It contains several files, each one is backed up when we are finished inserting data into it. No changes are made to the data after insert. All changes happen in tables in the primary file group.
So, I backup the primary file, the log, the first "partitioned" file, the log, the next "partitioned" file, the log, etc, etc, etc. Now, I delete one of the tables residing on one of the partitioned files and want to restore it. For arguments sake, let's say I have a primary file, and 5 partitioned files. I delete the table which was on file 3.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the steps to restore under these circumstances. I thought I understood it but, apparently not. When I try to restore, I'm told I must first backup the tail of the log. Having done that, I restore file 3, and all subsequent log files. Now, I'm right back where I was (missing the deleted table). When I try to roll back to a point in time before the delete...it claims to be successful but, nothing perceptable is different...??
Can someone help set me straight here?
Need to restore database,here's the scenario:
Data got deleted on Friday evening, need to have database restored to FRiday afternoon and also some data has been entered on Monday, which needs to be there.
I an trying to figure out a workable backup plan. I'd like to use a backup device, but I don't see how to keep a set number of days backups in it. Backing up to a backup device adds the backup in. How do I purge the expired backups so there is only, lets say, 3 days worth of backups in the backup device?
Dear All,
I have a DB with four .NDF Files. The First .NDF File is corrupt.
Unfortunately my Backup also Failed. So I Have no Backup.
Other .NDF and .LDF and the MDF Files are intact except one .NDF file.
Can anyone help ?? How can restore/Recover my DB. I can not mount the DB. ITs OK if i loose some data and am able to use other intact .ndf files.
Your help is Greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I should restore a SQL Server 2005 Database from backup. The backup contains three files, named user.bak0, user.bak1 and user.bak2.
How is the syntax of the restore filelistonly and the restore database ... ?
I usualy write
restore filelistonly from disk = 'path and filenam.bak'
restore database. zy
from disk = 'path and filename.bak'
with replace,
move.....
move....
This works but I cannot use it with a splitted backup file. The files are much too big to put together to one file.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I 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
I have a backup plan that begins with a weekly full backup and then a nightly transactionlog backup. If mid week I perform a full backup to restore on another server does that affect the log backups of the scheduled plan?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am in plan to implement following for backup of one of our database Enable Full recovery mode
1- Create full backup nightly
2- Create transaction log backup after every 25 min
as I am taking full backup every night, I think I can remove transaction log file backups at the time of full backup, as we can apply transaction log backup over full backup.My question is regarding removal of transaction log backups.
-Should I remove all transaction log backups and then execute full backup?
-Should I execute full backup and remove all transaction log backup older than 24Hrs ?
-Do I have to consider SCN or related info before deleting any transaction log backup ?
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.
Thanks!
SQL Server 2005 on Windows 2003 Server x64.
SQL 2000 EE, win 2k3, sql 8.00.2187
Logshipping was working fine till last Friday...Looks like there was a cluster node failover during the weekend on the Secondary SQL cluster....From that time, restore log is not working, I am able to see all the log backup files are being copied to the secondary server...its no the transaction log backup share missing problem......I see this message:
The RESTORE statement could not access file 'J:MSSQLBackupDBName_200712081350.tuf'. Error was '2(The
system cannot find the file specified.)'
I gooled and found that .tuf file has the LSN information as which log needs to be restored next....I looked at the sql error log and tried to restore the next log manually with "norecovery" option, but still get the same message....Is there any other option other than to remove and reconfigure logshipping ?
Thanks,
Ranga
We have just implemented a SQL 2012 always on environment. We have a primary and secondary server. I am confused about how to set up the backup plans. The application team was happy to tell me that in sql 2012 always on we can offload the backups to the secondary, thus reducing overhead on the primary server.
However, the secondary only supports copy only full backups. I am unsure how these would be useful in a disaster event? I could not apply any trx log backups on a copy only backup. This means I need to run my full backups on the primary server?
Running SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition.
Database is in Full Recovery mode.
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'
Any thoughts would be appreciated.