Making copies of data which may be restored after a data loss event or to recover data from some earlier point in time.
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SQL Server AlwaysOn backup transaction log on secondary, error appear in log
I have a SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn with two nodes.
I set the backup preferences as follow: Primary, node1 50%, node2 50%. I configure a full backup job (custom script verifying sys....
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Managed backup large database to Azure
Got a bit of an issue here that I need some help to solve.
Hosting a database, that is about 400Gigs. This is giving us a little headache getting it to work with Managed Backup to Azure Storage ...
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Concurrent backups in MS SQLServer 2008 R2
Can anyone please point me to a piece of documentation that suggest how many concurrent backups initiated by different BACKUP statements are possible in Microsoft SQL server 2008?
The documentation ...
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Transaction log backup - Only full recovery model?
I am reading this book from Microsoft - it says:
"A log backup cannot be performed unless the database is in full recovery model and an initial full backup has been performed"
Is this correct? I know ...
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What is technical meaning of point in time recovery?
Please can I have a technical meaning of point in time recovery? Does it mean that given a backup file, we must be able to recover upto any point in time during the span of the time covered by the ...
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In Full recovery mode, when does the buffer/transaction log changes get applied to the database data pages?
When a change is to be made, the data page is fetched from the database data file into the buffer and changes are made to the buffer page and are also written to the transaction log. Write ahead ...
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How to accomplish such insert-or-update strategy?
Programming stored procedures isn't my strongest point when it comes to programming, but I'm trying to get better.
I've stumbled upon a business requirement that's kind of hard for me and I was ...
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How to change the SQL Server Backup file (.bak) file default icon?
As I would like to say that by mistake the SQL Server 2012 backup file (.bak) open with wordpad. Due to this reason all backup files of SQL Server (.bak) file change with wordpad icon in entire the ...
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Log Shipping with minimum synchronization gap
We will have an application that will go live soon. I will be using Log Shipping for Disaster Recovery but I am confused about the Job scheduling. The transaction logs will be taken every 10 minutes ...
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Backup via mysqldump. Is this safe to do on production or will it crash the server?
I want to run this command during the time in which the production server is running the application:
mysqldump -u sbp -p databasename_production > databasename_development_copy.sql
Is this safe ...
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SQL server - Re. Filegroup / partitioning
Assuming VLDB is split into multiple file groups, each having its own file and on a separate disk.
Now let's say there is a disk crash bringing down one of the file groups - then will the other parts ...
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Database backup - Use case of FORMAT and INIT
I understand that FORMAT looks at mediaset level and if set then creates a new media set so if there are any existing backupsets then they will no longer be available.
Also, INIT looks at backupset ...
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Very large MySQL backup
At our company we have a very large MySQL server with almost 1.000 databases with a total size of 500 GB. Every customer has is own database. And each database has about 120-125 tables!
In the past ...
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Full Database backup internals
My understanding of a full backup is (based on https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2009.07.sqlbackup.aspx - most of the below is copied, from this link):
Force a database checkpoint and make ...
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SQL server database backup - Destination Disk - Adding multiple files - does it duplicate or split backup into the files?
When we do full data backup (using SSMS UI), at the bottom of the window we have the option to specify the destination as Disk and also to add multiple files.
My question is - does adding multiple ...
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Handling backups of a large table (>1 TB) in Postgres?
I have a 1TB table (X) that is a pain to backup.
The table X contains historical log data that is not often updated after creation. We usually only access a single row at a time, so performance is ...
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Backup cut-off time for Full, Differential, Log, File, Partial backups
My understanding was that all backups contain data up to the time/point when backup operation was completed.
Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure - Exam Ref 70-764 says:
Full: This contains ...
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After a full backup, how does system know which transactions to restore from the transaction log backup?
Full backup does not truncate the transaction log file.
Assuming the Following Scenario
Full backup at 6AM
TLog backup at 10AM
Full backup at 1PM
TLog backup at 6PM
Crash immediately at the next ...
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Schedule database backup question
Good day. This may be a stupid question and you can give me a stupid answer if you need to. I know you can schedule a task to backup a sql database at logon, shutdown, specific time, etc. But What I ...
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Help to understand 'log space used' metric
The chart below comes from a monitoring tool. The metric shown is "log space used" for SQL Server 2016 for the last 7 days.
I'm looking for help to understand what's going on here.
What I do know is ...
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1answer
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Running MySQL Backups to network location
We have a MySQL server with several databases for development work and we want to back up some of the DBs to a NAS device.
These have been backed up previously but the backups have not worked for some ...
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1answer
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Suggestions for large DB maintenance
i have one large database (more than 1,500 tables and total db size of 56GB) and i would like to ask for tips and guidance regarding the maintenance of such large database!
Will the size be a problem ...
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Under what conditions could restore of a huge database get delayed, in SQL server 2016, hosted on VM?
I have system where my database gets restored every night, and off late the restore is taking a lot longer from past few days.
Here is server config:
ES 2637 XEON @ 3.5 Ghz
Windows virtual server ...
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1answer
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MYSQL database failover
Current status
I have a MySQL (MariaDB 10.2) server with various databases, to which a lot of people have access to. Which means that users can create MyISAM or InnoDB tables/databases.
Problem
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How to import one specific oracle table with all constraints
I need to drop or truncate an Oracle table and then import it from a backup file with all constrain triggers index.
What's the best way to do it?
What is better using cmd or toad 11.5?
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1answer
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Do I need to detach a database to attach it?
I am trying to move data from one SQL Server server to another (located on another computer). I know of the detach/attach method, but I don't want to disturb the prod environment (detaching a prod ...
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Copy Postgres database from DEV to PROD on Amazon RDS using pgAdminIII
I am running pgAdminIII on Windows 10 and trying to copy my PostgreSQL database to production.
I am able to Backup to a file. I am also able to connect to the PROD server on Amazon RDS and make ...
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Compare different modes of backups
Ive been searching to find any script or a method for below:
Case1 : we have litespeed backups running without checksum and verify backups taking x mins for an instances with TBs of dbs
Case 2: we ...
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1answer
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How to do per-tenant backups for multi-tenant databases?
Are there any best practices, experiences or guidelines when it comes to do per-tenant backups/restores in a microservice multi-tenant application?
In my case I have multiple Postgres servers which ...
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1answer
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Error 9002 Transaction log full SUSDB
I am running a WSUS Server on Windows Server 2016. The WSUS Service stops because transition log is full.
The Event viewer says:
The transaction log for database 'SUSDB' is full due to 'CHECKPOINT'.
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1answer
37 views
SQL Server Backup does not run
After changing the sa password of SQL server 2012, the automatic backup doesn't run any more.
Please see the log history:
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Backup Plan on Always On using Maintenance Wizard doing Tlogs on Primary and Secondary
I have my set my back up preference set to primary and the secondary is not readable. Then I did the following:
Setup the same maintenance plan on all replicas in the AG through the maintenance ...
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1answer
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Restoring development database from production backup triggered production database to restore as well
We backed up our production database to restore our development database.
When we restored our development database from the backup it triggered the production database to restore as well.
The ...
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How do I use a different domain and username in a SQL Server BACKUP LOG command?
I looked here,
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/backup-transact-sql?view=sql-server-2017#security
I want to backup my log to a different server. When I do this through the SSMS,...
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1answer
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The backup or restore was aborted - what could it be?
use master
go
ALTER DATABASE Apcore SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
RESTORE DATABASE Apcore
FROM DISK=N'C:\Backups\QG-V-SQL-TS$AIFS_DEVELOPMENT_APCore_FULL_20180909_230034.bak'
WITH FILE = ...
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How long to keep SQL Server Backup before backing up to separate storage
We use ola hallengran scripts for SQL Server backups. We perform full backups daily. We keep SQL Server backups 7 days and tlogs for 48 hours. We perform 4 weekly checkpoints, or snapshots, to our ...
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How to export user with tables and tablespace oracle
I'm a newbie to Oracle World.
I have to export, from computer A, tables and their data, to computer B.
So, my question is: is there a way to export user, tablespace, tables and their data with one ...
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SQL server tool - backup & restore to different servers different locations
I need to back up 100s of databases and restore them to 20 different servers, and different data file locations for destination servers.
Are there any tool that allows me to copy 1 database/all ...
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Oracle Database Recovery [closed]
I recently develop an app using Oracle Application Express on a Windows OS, after uploading lots of data. Unfortunately for me the OS field before I could make any backup but, I salvage the data files ...
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1answer
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TSQL retrieve backup date from database after restore
Usecase: MSSQL Database is hosted in the cloud, I download the database thrue FTP and restore it on-premise automatically for reporting.
Now I want to retrieve the date/time when the backup was made, ...
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Setting up Log Shipping WIth Data domain DDBoost
Is there is any way to set up Log Shipping with Data Domain. My thought process was to have data domain do the full back up and skip the Transaction Logs. I will have a separate job that does the T ...
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1answer
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Mongo doesn't restore user password
I have following scenario:
Dump Mongo database (cmd mongodump)
Change password from one of admin users
Restore Mongo database (cmd mongorestore)
EDIT:
I use following command for db dump:
...
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1answer
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Can not backup multiple (not all) databases Ola Hallengren [closed]
This error is quite easy to replicate. So before I send a bug to Ola, I'd like to check if maybe I'm doing it wrong. Version is 2018-06-27 20:44:12
I created 3 databases. DB1, DB2 and DB3. I'd like ...
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SQL Server Backup Service Master Key - Multiple Passwords
Ignoring the reasons behind the request, if I backup the Service Master Key twice, using a different password each time, is either a valid backup for restoration purposes (assuming the correct ...
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Does SQL Server allow moving backwards with standby file?
I have a database in standby mode.
-- STEP 1
-- Restore path F1 > T7
RESTORE DATABASE [TestRestore] FROM DISK = N'C:\Temp\F1.BAK' WITH FILE = 1,
NORECOVERY, NOUNLOAD, REPLACE, STATS = 5
GO
-- ...
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How to get to know that db files are inaccessible?
Let me explain my case.
I have a mount with database files on my local PC. I attach the database (from this mount). And then close this mount (in other word i attach db and then delete db files). So ...
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How to migrate InnoDB tables with 10s of partitions from the data directory onto another drive on the same server
I am trying to move some of the older partitions from larger tables located at the main data directory to another drive/mount point on the same server. I want all the partitions/tables to be ...
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Process to Archive off DB Backups in Azure Blob Storage
I'm looking for ideas on how to start on Archiving some of our SQL Server Database Backups that are on the Azure Blob Storage. It's getting to an unmanageable state. I'd like to drive this using ...
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2answers
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Understanding CleanupTime in Ola Hallengren's SQL Server scripts in relation to FULL backups and LOG backups
I am having trouble understanding what exactly to expect from the CleanupTime option in the Ola Hallengren Server Maintenance Solution. I'm finding some related questions, and elaborate answers, but ...
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2answers
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SQL Server 2016 Availability Group on DPM 2016
I'm trying to backup my availability group in SQL Server 2016 using DPM 2016, but after I add the cluster in DPM, availability group show nothing to back up. I've set every secondary node to be ...
