SQL-Backup & Restore | Varinder Sandhu https://varindersandhu.in Keep it Simple and Smart Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:39:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://varindersandhu.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/varindersandhu_favicon.ico SQL-Backup & Restore | Varinder Sandhu https://varindersandhu.in 32 32 22788835 Compress SQL Server Backup in Right Way https://varindersandhu.in/2015/08/31/compress-sql-server-backup-in-right-way/ Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:39:41 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=3626 Databases have the nasty habit of growing to mammoth sizes with continued usage over years. And it is common knowledge that databases that grow too large become prone to problems such as corruption, mismanagement etc. It thus becomes important to keep tabs on their growing sizes before they reach the

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]]> 3626 SQL Server 2012 – Get Backup History of the database https://varindersandhu.in/2014/03/07/sql-server-2012-get-backup-history-database/ Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:15:07 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=3397 The msdb database is system database used by SQL Server Agent for scheduling alerts and jobs. msdb.dbo.backupset – Contain the information concerning the most-granular details of the backup process msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily – Contains the metadata for the physical backup files as they relate to backup sets Using the above mentioned tables,

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]]> 3397 Schedule Automatic Backup in SQL Server 2012 – Part2 https://varindersandhu.in/2014/02/11/schedule-automatic-backup-in-sql-server-2012-part2/ Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:18:47 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=3350 In the previous post, we have scheduled automatic backup in SQL Server 2012 – Part1. As we have scheduled daily backup of database and backup file will be generated every day. It is a good practice that to delete backup files after a certain period of time as per requirement.

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]]> 3350 Schedule Automatic Backup in SQL Server 2012 – Part1 https://varindersandhu.in/2014/02/11/schedule-automatic-backup-sql-server-2012-part1/ https://varindersandhu.in/2014/02/11/schedule-automatic-backup-sql-server-2012-part1/#comments Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:00:37 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=3336 You know it is very important to back up your SQL server database backup on the regular basis. So in this post, we will see how to schedule automatic backup in SQL server 2012. We will go step by step to schedule so that we all can understand each and

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]]> https://varindersandhu.in/2014/02/11/schedule-automatic-backup-sql-server-2012-part1/feed/ 1 3336 SQL Server 2008 – Database Backup Compression https://varindersandhu.in/2012/04/27/sql-server-2008-database-backup-compression/ https://varindersandhu.in/2012/04/27/sql-server-2008-database-backup-compression/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:48:56 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=2355 Backup compression was introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise. At installation, backup compression default is set to 0, which makes backup compression off by default. To change the default to COMPRESSION, set backup compression default to 1. To revert the default to NO_COMPRESSION, set backup compression default back to 0.

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]]> https://varindersandhu.in/2012/04/27/sql-server-2008-database-backup-compression/feed/ 3 2355 SQL Server 2008R2 – Database Restore – failed 38 (reached the end of the file) https://varindersandhu.in/2012/03/22/sql-server-2008r2-database-restore-failed-38-reached-the-end-of-the-file/ Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:59:15 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=2295 While restoring the SQL database error occurred… Through UI following error occurred Through Script following error occurred Script: RESTORE DATABASE mydb FROM DISK = 'D:\ DB Backup\mydb.bak' WITH MOVE 'mydb_Data' TO 'E:\Database\mydb.mdf', MOVE 'mydb_Log' TO 'E:\Database\mydb.ldf', REPLACE GO Msg 3203, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Read on “D:\ DB

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]]> 2295 SQL Server – Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database https://varindersandhu.in/2012/03/08/sql-server-error-3154-the-backup-set-holds-a-backup-of-a-database-other-than-the-existing-database/ https://varindersandhu.in/2012/03/08/sql-server-error-3154-the-backup-set-holds-a-backup-of-a-database-other-than-the-existing-database/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:51:51 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=2254 Sometime we faced the following error message while restoring the database Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database. Solution: Use WITH REPLACE while using the restore script as Script 1 RESTORE DATABASE YourDB FROM DISK = 'C:\YourDB.bak' WITH REPLACE  Script 2

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]]> https://varindersandhu.in/2012/03/08/sql-server-error-3154-the-backup-set-holds-a-backup-of-a-database-other-than-the-existing-database/feed/ 2 2254 Restore SQL 2008 full database backup to SQL Server 2005 https://varindersandhu.in/2011/07/16/restore-sql-2008-full-database-backup-to-sql-server-2005/ Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:19:58 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=1336 My friend wants to restore the SQL 2008 full backup to SQL Server 2005. He faced an issue while restore the SQL 2008 full backup to SQL Server 2005. He has a question from me as: Can we restore the SQL 2008 full database backup to SQL Server 2005? Answer:

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]]> 1336 SQL Server – Mirror Backup of databases https://varindersandhu.in/2011/07/09/sql-server-mirror-backup-of-databases/ Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:42:31 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=1298 It is very common practice to create an exact copy of the database backup and store it to different places so that in case any emergency or misfortune, DBA should have the alternative location to find the backup of databases.  Once a full backup is accomplished DBAs generally copy the

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]]> 1298 SQL Server – Validation of Backup https://varindersandhu.in/2011/04/19/sql-server-validation-of-backup/ https://varindersandhu.in/2011/04/19/sql-server-validation-of-backup/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:16:10 +0000 http://theitarticles.wordpress.com/?p=727 Database backup are insurance policy for a database, we need to ensure that backups created are valid and useful. To validate the backup, we can use following command Restore verifyonly from <backup device> When a backups is validated, SQL Server performs the following steps Calculated a checksum for the backup

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