Centrally store all server information
I have recently installed the backup pro 7 gui on my local pc and have been using it to set up all the backup jobs and view all the information for my servers. I need to install the gui on a central...
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We have a process that sweeps the folder where the backup files land to move them offsite. We are having problems where the sweep job tries to access the backup files while the backup is still in...
View ArticleRE: How to generate report on database restore durations
If you don't mind writing your own reports, you can access the restore details using SQL commands from within Management Studio. The SQL Backup restore history details are stored in a SQL Server...
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Unfortunately, there isn't a way to rename a backup file upon backup completion using SQL Backup.
View ArticleRE: Centrally store all server information
Thank you for your forum post. The GUI is configured per user on each machine. The file that contains the information regarding the servers you have added to the GUI is located in this path:...
View ArticleRE: Click on server name, green circle spins forever
In case anybody else comes across this thread, the solution that actually worked for me was to select the Delete Old Backup History in the Server Options dialog (right-click the server name to access)....
View ArticleRE: How to generate report on database restore durations
I prefer writing my own reports - thanks for the tip. This gives me all the information I need. I need a clarification though. The following is the output from a log file. As you can see, the restore...
View ArticleRE: How to generate report on database restore durations
The 313.414 seconds is the time taken to read and restore the backup data. The rest of the time would be used to re-apply the uncommitted transactions from the redo log prior to the restore process,...
View ArticleRestoring to a different SQL Server
Hi, Everything I read seems to say this is possible through the GUI, but I cannot see the option to do it. I am trying to restore a database taken on ServerA, via SQL Backup, to ServerB using SQL...
View ArticleRE: How to generate report on database restore durations
Thanks Peter. Restoring with norecovery has indeed brought the restore times down, but not to the level I would have expected. Look at this log for example. Restore log line tells that it took 0.196...
View ArticleRE: How to generate report on database restore durations
There is a trace flag you can use to log the restore process in detail. Try this:Code:DBCC TRACEON (3004, 3605, -1) SQL Server will then log the additional details to the error log. Do the details...
View ArticleRE: How to generate report on database restore durations
Thanks Peter for sticking with me. So, I set the trace flags on and reran the restore. Here is the typical log file. Also see the attached image from sql server error logs for the activity while this...
View ArticleRE: How to generate report on database restore durations
Don't understand how to upload an image. So, here is the log copy/pasted from ERRORLOG: 2013-05-15 11:06:01.90 spid61 RestoreLog: Database ODHR 2013-05-15 11:06:01.90 spid61 X-locking database: ODHR...
View ArticleRE: How to generate report on database restore durations
The longest process is this entry: 2013-05-15 11:06:02.21 spid61 Restore-Redo begins on database ODHR and this post explains what is actually done during this...
View ArticleRE: How to generate report on database restore durations
Thanks Peter. I am going to change my process to restore with norecovery by default, and then recover to standby mode only in the end. That should bring down the total restore time. Also, I looked at...
View ArticleRE: 7.3.0.383 Issue: Refreshing Connection for 20m & counting
Has Red-Gate looked into performance tuning sqbdata? Activity History still takes forever to populate--GT 5 minutes for us on a server that contains 1 year of history. Customers should not be forced to...
View ArticleError 880: BACKUP DATABASE permission denied
Sorry to dig this old chestnut up again, but I have just had the need to allow a domain user to back up one database on one of our server, and am getting this error messageCode:Error 880: BACKUP...
View ArticleRE: SQL2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups and SQLBackup
What I've done on our Always On Availability groups is to modify our 'standard' Backup stored procedure to determine if the database is a member of the Availability group and if it is on the replica do...
View ArticleRE: Error 880: BACKUP DATABASE permission denied
Could you please post the last SQL command, as logged by Profiler, when you run the backup via the sys_Backup procedure? Best guess would be that the SETUSER function is raising that error. What...
View ArticleRE: Click on server name, green circle spins forever
I am having exactly the same issue. However I dont want to set that option to remove the Old Backup History (I need to keep the history for compliance reasons). I can wait over 30 minutes for the...
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