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What Does It Need To Back Up By Differential ?

Jul 26, 2007

As I tested, I found with Transaction logs and Full Backup can support any changing of database.

So I doubt that Do I need to back up by diffrential style ?

Please suggest me.

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Restoring Differential Backups

Feb 14, 2002

I am trying to set up a process where a differential backup is taken daily and applied to another DB. For some reason I cannot get the diff backup to restore. The full DB backup restored fine.

Server: Msg 3136, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
Cannot apply the differential backup on device 'diff' to database 'test'.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

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Restoring Differential Backup

Feb 9, 2008

Hi,
Im trying to restore the differential backup,I have to restore the full backup first and then restore the differential backup.Can any body tell me the code for this?

my program is like this
--for fullbackup
if type=D
begin
restore database databasename
from disk=path
end
--for differential backup
else if type=I
???

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Restoring Separate Differential Backup Files

Dec 6, 2007

Hi,

I'm making backups of the database by first making a full backup and then differential backups. The differentials are backed up to separate files.

Restore of the full backup works fine, but I can't restore a differential backup. In Management Studio Express, I first do a full backup restore with option NO RECOVERY and then try to restore a differential backup. But this failes with the message:

"This differential backup cannot be restored because the database has not been restored to the correct earlier state."

Is it possible to restore a differential backup that is backed up to a separate file?

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Jan 17, 2005

Hi Everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me.
We've had a SQL login deleted (special application one) and I understand the best way I can get it back, is to restore the Master database. Is this true ? All the manuals are working on the fact that Master has become corrupt & that it should be rebuilt before restoring. Ours is not corrupt, so am I ok to skip rebuilding it first ?

Cheers

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Jun 28, 2000

I'm trying to recreate a sql database on another server and I installed sql server 6.5 on a server and then restored the master db using the Sql Setup program. It worked without any errors, but it did not create the loginthat will use the database that I have not restored yet. Aren't the Logins storied in the master database?

Thanks.

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How To Remove NT User After Restoring Back Up From Diffrent Domain

Jul 18, 2001

hi everybody.
Scenario

Company X has Sql server and domain x.com

so
on sql server
they have logins
XA
XB
XC

Back of database Production was done

database Production was restored in Company Y

use Production
select name from sysusers
name
----
XA
XB
XC

sp_dropuser 'XA'

Server: Msg 15008, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_dropuser, Line 12
User 'XA' does not exist in the current database.

How to drop 'XA' ?

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Transaction Replication Failed After Restoring Full Back Up Of Database In NORECOVERY

Mar 4, 2011

We had a siutation last night in our production environment that forced us to revert back to an earlier version of the database (before a major code rollout that failed). After restoring the days full backup (with NORECOVERY), and then restoring a DIFF backup (FULL RECOVERY and had checked Preserve Replication Settings)...the transaction replication failed.

Message #1
The replication agent has been successfully started. See the Replication Monitor for more information.

Message #2
2011-03-04 15:07:17.566 Copyright (c) 2008 Microsoft Corporation
2011-03-04 15:07:17.566 Microsoft SQL Server Replication Agent: logread
2011-03-04 15:07:17.566
2011-03-04 15:07:17.566 The timestamps prepended to the output lines are expressed in terms of UTC time.
2011-03-04 15:07:17.566 User-specified agent parameter values:

[code]....

I've tried reinitializing the publication/subscription and while that took brand new snapshots and copied it over to the replicated data server, it did not fix the problem.I read from a different post that I could try running "sp_replrestart" but that ran for about a half an hour and didn't appear to do anything but fill up our log files...did I not wait long enough?

The only thing I know to do at this point is to drop the publication on the production server and rebuild it completely (and with all the tables we're replicating that would take quite a bit of time.

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Having Difficulty Setting Back Up To Back Up File Wihout Datetime Stamp SQL 2K

Apr 24, 2007

Hello,I'm trying to create a simple back up in the SQL Maintenance Plan that willmake a single back up copy of all database every night at 10 pm. I'd likethe previous nights file to be overwritten, so there will be only a singleback up file for each database (tape back up runs every night, so each daysback up will be saved on tape).Every night the maintenance plan makes a back up of all the databases to anew file with a datetime stamp, meaning the previous nights file stillexists. Even when I check "Remove files older than 22 hours" the previousnights file still exists. Is there any way to create a back up file withoutthe date time stamp so it overwrites the previous nights file?Thanks!Rick

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May 14, 2015

New to Database Mirroring and I have a question about the Principal database server. I have a Database Mirroring setup configured for High-safety with automatic fail over mode using a witness.

When a fail over occurs because of a lost of communication between the principal and mirror, the mirror server takes on the roll of Principal. When communication is returned to the Principal server, at some point does the database that was the previous Principal database automatically go back to being the Principal server?

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How Do I Back-up &> Truncate &> Shrink &> Back-up SQL 2000

Jul 20, 2005

Hello,I am hoping you can help me with the following problem; I need to process the following steps every couple of hours in order to keep our Sql 2000 database a small as possible (the transaction log is 5x bigger than the db).1.back-up the entire database2.truncate the log3.shrink the log4.back-up once again.As you may have determined, I am relatively new to managing a sql server database and while I have found multiple articles online about the topics I need to accomplish, I cannot find any actual examples that explain where I input the coded used to accomplish the above-mentioned steps. I do understand the theory behind the steps I just do not know how to accomplish them!If you know of a well-documented tutorial, please point me in the right direction.Regards.

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Restoring Database Leaves Me With (Restoring...) Message

Jan 9, 2007

I did a full backup of a db from one server(Express2005) and trying to restore it to a different instance of SQL2005 on the same development machine. (Also had some fulltext columns if that means anything)

Many failures but finally got it to report all was successful except the icon in Object Explorer shows (Restoring...) with no indication of any real activity going on. It's a tiny database with hardly any data in it.

Just not sure what the heck is going on there. It also won't let me into the database until this the (Restoring...) goes away.

Any advice on how to get this thing finished out?

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Rolling Back SQL Server 2005 Databases Back To SQL Server 2000

Sep 22, 2006

Does anybody know of a way to rollback SQL Server 2005
databases back to SQL Server 2000? Is there a way of doing it without
resorting to Copy Database Wizard? I love to find a way of attaching a SS 2005 database
to a SS 2000 instance without any issues.

I recently upgraded to SS 2005 and I am very unhappy with the SS 2005 and I
want to rollback to SS 2000, which was a lot more stable. I am having
several major issues that are affecting my whole company's day-to-day
operations and the managers are not happy. Some of the issues include
night time batch running very sluggish for no apparent reason. This is a
biggest problem because it only occurs once or so a week and causes a disturbance
with the daily activities when the night time processing isn��t completed on
time. The rest of the time, the batch processing runs great, even a little better then on SS 2000. I
don't believe it is a matter of my application needing to be retuned because if
that was the case, then why isn't it running sluggish every night? Also,
it's never the same day that the sluggish behavior occurs. If it was occurring
on the same night, then I would have something to investigate within our
application, but it doesn't. Another issue that I am having involves a
night time job that restores a copy of the production database to the Data
Warehouse server to be used for updating the data warehouse. Again, most
of the time it runs great (~2 1/2 hours), but once or twice a week, it goes
stupid and takes 6 1/2 hours for no apparent reason. Again, it is not happening
the same day either, which could give me something to invesigate. On SS 2000, this same job ran flawlessly. Never I did I run into situation that the
database restoration took that long to run. Even another issue involves a SQL Server Agent Job that was put into suspended
state. What's a suspended state and how can I get it out of suspended
state? I can find no information about suspended state in BOL. I
did a Google and nothing came up. If this suspended state was put
in for security reasons, great, but then tell me how I can remove the suspended
state. I am also not happy with the
fact that I can't get accurate information about the queries that are actively
running at that particular moment. In SS 2000, when I noticed high CPU
usage on the server, I would run the sp_who2 active stored proc and it would
show me all the active thread and how much CPU it was consuming. I would
then find the running threads with the highest CPU numbers and investigate the
query and see if we could improve it. Now in SS 2005, I get in the same
situation and run the sp_who2 stored proc, and there is no smoking gun.
All of the active threads are showing very little CPU usage, which I am very
suspect of. What the heck happen to sp_who2? I looked at some of
the other ways of looking at running processes (i.e... sys.sysprocesses) and
they don't appear to be giving the information that I need.

I am very unhappy and I just want to roll back to SS 2000 and wait a couple of
years before I upgrade to SS 2005.

Dave Brown

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Differential Backups

May 2, 2002

I know that the differential backup will only back up information that was changed since the last full database backup, but I have process that I need to implement and need to know if differentials will work.

1. Perform full database backup on Sunday.
2. Perform differential backups Monday thru Friday (twice a day).
3. Perform a database restore on the following Sunday from the backup taken on the previous Sunday.
4. Perform differential backups Monday thru Friday.

At this point I would repeat steps 3 and 4 for the following weeks.

My question is this. Since I didn't actually perform a backup in step 3, but instead performed a database restore, will the differential backup in step 4 backup all of the information changed since step 1??..or will it backup all of the information changed since the restore in step 3? I'm hoping it will only back up the information changed since step 3.

Thanks!

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Differential Backups

Jun 25, 2002

I perform a full database backup at night with a differential backup at noon each day. I created 2 devices to do this. Northwind (for full backups) and northwind_diff (for diff backups).

When the differential is run, it appends each day's noon backup to the northwind_diff file so the file doesn't really reflect only changes - it just keeps growing and growing. I'm using the following syntax to perform the diff backup.

backup database northwind to northwind_diff with differential

Is there a way to initilize the backup device(file) prior to the differential backup being done?

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Differential Backup

May 3, 2001

SQL 7.0 SP1 on NT 4.0 EE

Thru maintenance plan I backup my DBs every night and the T-Logs every hour.
Now I have to set the option "select into/bulk copy" on one DB.
I schedule the differential backup every 3 hour with option "overwrite existing media", wich is, in my case, one file on disk.
My sequence of T-Logs is valid even if a non logged operations occurs?
If I have to restore this DB can I use the last full backup + the differential backup + all the logs in between?

example:
22.00 full db backup
08.00 t-log
09.00 t-log
10.00 t-log
10.30 diff backup
11.00 t-log
12.00 t-log
13.30 diff backup
14.00 t-log
15.00 t-log

Or my log are unusuable because the non logged operation?
Thank you very much.

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Differential Backups...

Jul 23, 2001

Hello

I am using SQL 7 database maintenance plans to create full backups for all the databases on my server every night which expire after 7 days, and transaction log backups every hour on some of the databases which also expire after 7 days.

I want to add differential backups but the maintenance plan doesn't allow me to add those. How do I add them, and what naming conventions should I use? I want them to expire after 7 days, but want to backup every 4 hours.

Thanks

Steve.

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Differential Backup

Aug 31, 2001

I trying to created a Differential backup and I get the following error. Can anyone help?

The volume on device 'd:MSSQL7BACKUPCPIDATABKUP.BAK' is not part of a multifamily (RAID) media set. Use WITH FORMAT to form a new RAID set. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3259) Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013). The step failed.

Thanks

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Sep 19, 2001

I'm trying to create a differential backup job that run hourly and that creates a different differential files. Ext. dbfilename1am, dbfilename2am, dbfilename3am ect... Can I do this with one job? Are do I have to create a differential backup job for each hour?

Thanks

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Aug 27, 2001

Hi, I would like to do the following;

Mon - Full Backup
Tue - Differential

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Aug 28, 2001

Hi, is anyone using differential backups? I would like to have separate differential backups but right now it keeps appending to one big differential backup. If they are separated the older backups can be deleted. How do you do this?

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DIfferential Backups

Sep 12, 2001

I am setting up differential backups thru EM every 4 hours. I append to the existing file. Is there a way to tell it to delete the files older than 2 days thru EM. I looked at the job, there is now way to do this.
Thru Mainplans you can create differential backups, it doesn't show you the option..
Any clues will be appreciated.

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Sep 27, 2007

Hi Folks!

I did a few searches and found some interesting threads but was not able to understand much. :)

I recently jumped from support to a DBA position and am learning about SQL Server 2000.

My dilemma: We have a SQL 2000 server with about 500GB's worth of databases that has some jobs from the app locking up due to tape backups. I am performing Full nightly and 1/2hour transaction SQL backups. We run daily differential and weekly full tape backups. It is taking 14 hours to run tape backups daily, causing some of the application jobs to fail. So to test it, I stopped the tape job to run one night and none of the App jobs failed.

So, I am hoping that if I start running nightly differentials, weekly fulls, and 1/2 hour trans, it should work. However, I am not very familiar with Differential jobs as till today i have been using maintenance plans. :confused:

My ideal scenario is this: Differentials start on Sat morning and stop before the weekly backup runs on Friday and then delete the older file when starting a new one. Is this possible? how?

C= OS, D=Backup (Raid 0), G=Data (Raid 5), E=Logs(Raid5).

Any help would be appreciated, and obviously if I have missed some piece of information, please feel free to ask.

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May 18, 2008

Hi,

I've defined a maintenance plan in SQL2005, which creates a differential backup of a DB daily. Suppose I'm having differential backups from May, 10 to May, 14 but backup files of May 12 and May 13 are lost (deleted unexpectedly). Am I losing some data, if I restore from backup file of May 14?

Thanks & Regards,

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Sep 10, 2007

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How do i go about making a differential copy of the A database onto B?

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Feb 6, 2008

Windows Server 2003R2 w/ Sp2
MS SQL 2005 w/ Sp1

Currently run a weekly (full) backup and a daily (differential) backup.

When I format the server and rebuild I restored the DB using the weekly (full) backup and all worked as it should.

When I format the server and rebuild I attempted to restore the DB using the daily (differential) backup - I got the following error:
'SPCDBDIF.BAK ' is not part of a multiple family media set. BACKUP WITH FORMAT can be used to form a new media set. RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally. (MS SQL Server, Error: 3259)

I am sure I am not using the differential file properly. What is the proper method to restore a DB and use a differential backup?

Any insight appreciated.
Thanks,
Kerry

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Jan 29, 2008

I need to make sure that my databases are backed up every hour so they can be recovered. What should I be doing? Transaction log backups every hour or differental backups every hour? I assume differental is better because it is cumlative, but would take up more space. Also, how long are they worth keeping around. I was thing for a day until the next full backup is run. Any thoughts?

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Jan 11, 2002

Hi all

Can anybody explain why the size of a differential backup in SQL7 is MUCH higher than the one in SQL2000?
Do this test yourself: do a full backup of the pubs database in SQL7 , it will be around 1.5mb, do a differential backup, and it will be 2mb or 4mb.
If you do the same tests in SQL2000 the differential backup is around 200K.
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Sep 17, 2001

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Jan 11, 2001

PLEASE HELP...

WE ARE DOWNLOADING THE BACKUP FILE FROM OTHER BRANCH OFFICE AND THE FILE SIZE IS GROWING LIKE HELL SO I AM CHANGING THE BACKUP POLICY TO DOWNLOAD THE DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP FILES EVERYDAY. BUT EVEN THE FILE SIZE GROWS DAY BY DAY UNTILL WE TAKE THE FULL BACKUP THERE. SO I WANT TO TAKE A DIIFERNETIAL BACKUP AND THEN IMMIDIATELY A FULL BACKUP AT THE REMOTE SERVER END. SO MY NEXT DIFFERNTIAL BACKUP WILL HAVE THE DATA OF ONLY PREVIOUS DAY.
FOR THIS I AM SCHEDULING A JOB WHICH FIRST TAKES A DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP AND THEN IMMIDIATELY FULL BACKUP EVERYDAY AT 12.00AM.
BUT I HAVE A CONCERN.. WHILE TAKING THE DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP ANY TRANSACTIONS THAT ARE TO BE COMMITED WILL NOT COMMIT UNTIL THE DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP COMPLETES. BUT IMMIDIATELY I AM STARTING FULL BACKUP. IS THERE ANY CHANCE THAT A TRANSACTION GETTING COMMITTED IN BETWEEN THESE TWO STEPS. IF SO IS THERE ANY WAY .. NOT RELEASE THE DATABASE UNTILL THESE 2 BACKUPS ARE COMPLETED?? I AM RUNNING IT AS A JOB..
ANY SUGGESTION??

THANKS IN ADVANCE.. :-)

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