Hi,
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
I am planning to take one full backup and Transactional Log backups for every month ..as i will be making the changes in database only once in a month .
And I am aware of that in case of disaster i need to restore database with all the Transactional Log backups . My Plan is to have Transactional log backups for 5 Years and after 5 years i would be taking a full backup .
So should I need to take any other precautions or concerns with this approach.?
im performing a backup on the master and i receive this error
"backup database permission denied in database master"
anyone input will be appreaciated.
Hi,
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.
Environment: 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!
Currently, 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.
We 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
I 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.
Thanks,
Fred Smith
fsmith@physio-control.com
Physio-Control Corp.
: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
Version: 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.
I 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.
do let me know...TIA
I 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.
Can we take differential backup of Master databae?
If yes please give me details how?
if No Please give me details why not?
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?
Newbie 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.
I'm new to full text catalogs and we have a vendor who's code utilizes them. The database server is SQL 2005 and I am noticing the following message in the SQL log every minute.
Changing the status to MERGE for full-text catalog "ResearchCatalog" (5) in database "DBA_Test" (11). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
A SQL job is running the following command every minute.
exec sp_fulltext_catalog 'ResearchCatalog', 'start_incremental'
What is the typical frequency for running an incremental?
Can the messages be suppressed?
Thanks, Dave
Hi, I right click on the publications and hit 'properties' but can't find where the frequency of them is.
Thanks,
-Trevor
Is there a way to perform term extraction on each row in a table, and have the term extraction denote the frequency of the term on a per row basis rather than a per table basis?
Otherwise, is there a way I can take extracted terms and apply a sql function that returns the occurance of that term in each row?
Example: Row 1 = 2 hits, row 3 = 5 hits, etc.
Hi
Is there any way of producing a list of tables with an indication of frequency of updates?
Even a list of tables with a "last updated" column would be good...
Div writes "I have 8 columns consisting of 1 letter each.I want to be able to count the number of times that the letter 'a' or 'b' until 'z' occurs in one record. For example, for record number 1, the following information is available:
Column 1: a
Column 1: k
Column 1: t
Column 1: s
Column 1: a
Column 1: d
Column 1: d
Column 1: k
I want to be able to see that for this record there are 2 occurences of 'a',2 occurences of 'k', 1 occurence of 't', etc.
Please help!!
I'm using SQL Version 8.0 and Windows XP Professional.
Thank you!
Divya"
Hey guys,
I have a table with about 80 columns and 400 millions records. Each columns has different responses that I need to get frequency for. I need to get counts for each response from all the columns... I have a query that does it, but it will run forever... what is the best way to do so?
My starting query:
select res, sum(cnt) from
(
select col1 res, count(*) as cnt from table1 with (nolock)
group by col1
union all
select col2 res, count(*) as cnt from table1 with (nolock)
group by col2
........................
select col80 res, count(*) as cnt from table1 with (nolock)
group by col80
)a group by res
Just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to create a SQL Server agent job that ran once every 30 seconds. I can't enter a value below 1 minute when editing the job schedule in Enterprise Manager.
Alternatively, I can create duplicate stored procedures and set one to run on the minute and one on the half minute. Thought there might be a better alternative to this though and I'll always have to be remembering to makes changes to both sprocs.
Thanks!
Hello all
I were thinking, if ther was a way to restrict people(hackers) from executing transactions too frequently, my database could be much more secure. Such capability is available within My Sql. I there such a thing in sql server?
thanks
I have a new production server with about 100 jobs on it. These are ETL jobs about half of which are in SSIS packages and half call stored procedures directly. For those calling stored procedures directly, might there be a way to use the system catalog to link the schedule of the job to the table being updated by the procedure? The result is a list of tables (those updated by jobs) and the schedule of when they are updated.
SQL 2012 Standard VPS Windows 2012 Server Standard
How do I determine the read/write frequency on a database table? I am trying to do this on a 2012 and 2008 R2 servers.
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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.
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Tarek Ghazali
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Step 1. First I am filtering the Sales Order information and inserting it in my Sales Orders table.
Step 2.Then I am filtering the details from the sales Order and inserting them in the respective table.
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I have an already published application running several MS SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services report.
I need a way to find from either the reporting services log or the application server (IIS) logs or windows log
to know the frequency of each report being used.
Based on this info, the business needs to know which reports are being used and to what extend?
How can I acheive this?
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I have an already published application running several MS SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services report.
I need a way to find from either the reporting services log or the application server (IIS) logs or windows log
to know the frequency of each report being used.
Based on this info, the business needs to know which reports are being used and to what extend?
How can I acheive this?
I have already got the IIS logs and it did not give the required info.
I have looked into the Reporting Services logs but it does not provide the info either.
Any help is appreciated
Hello,
I'm new to SQL and need help with a query. Not sure if this is the right place.
I have 2 tables, one MASTER and one DETAIL.
The MASTER table has a masterID, name and the DETAIL table has a detailID, masterID, and value columns.
I want to return a populated MASTER table with entries based on the DETAIL.value.
SELECT MASTER.*
FROM MASTER
WHERE DETAIL.value > 3
This is a simplified version of my problem. I can't figure out how to set the relationship between MASTER.masterID and DETAIL.masterID. If I do an INNER JOIN, the number of results are based on the number of DETAIL entries. I only want one entry per MASTER entry.
Hope this makes sense.
How can I do this?
GrkEngineer
Hi there
I'm getting this message on my third automated backup of the transaction logs of the day. Both databases are in full recovery mode, both successfully backed up at 01.00. The transaction logs backed up perfectly happily at 01:30 and 05:30, but failed at 09:30.
The only difference between 05:30 and 09:30's backups is that the log files were shrunk at 08:15 (the databases in question are the ones that sit under ILM2007, and keeping the log files small keeps the system running better).
Is it possible that shrinking the log files causes the database to think that there hasn't been a full database backup?
Thanks
Jane
We already integrated different client data to MDS with MS Excel plugin, now we want to push back updated or new added record to source database. is it possible do using MDS? Do we have any background sync process to which automatically sync data to and from subscriber and MDS?
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"I/O was resumed on database <database name>. No user action is required."
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