Question

Backup MS SQL 2000 databases to network share.

Asked by: kapara

Read through 3 pages of posts and I don't seem to ba able to find a clear cut step by step procedure.

I want to backup 5 SQL databases (Full) with a 7 day retention for each database to a network share.

So the folder will have 7 versions of each of the 5 databases.

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2009-01-29 at 20:07:47ID24097355
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Answers

 

by: rrjegan17Posted on 2009-01-29 at 21:57:06ID: 23505584

Hope this would give you more insight on it:

Refer the topic "Complete Database Backup" in the below link:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/sqlbackuprest.mspx

Before doing your backup, may that network share in your server as given in "Backup Devices" in the above link

Check out the topic "Set Up Backup Schedules (Maintenance Plan Wizard)" to automate this whole task.

Check out the Figure 49: Specify database backup directory

to remove files older than 7 days.

Hope this helped you..

 

by: kaparaPosted on 2009-01-29 at 22:01:57ID: 23505601

This does not tell me how to make a network share a backup device........

 

by: rrjegan17Posted on 2009-01-29 at 22:22:13ID: 23505675

If you need to make a network share as a backup device, follow UNC naming convention:

In the "Backup Device", Instead of specifying the path as
D:\Backup\

specify the UNC naming convention like

\\server\share\file_path

For more details, refer the link below.
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/windowsnetworking/g/unc-name.htm

 

by: rrjegan17Posted on 2009-01-29 at 22:22:41ID: 23505678

Thought you might be aware of this and hence not covered it out earlier.

 

by: rrjegan17Posted on 2009-01-29 at 22:26:12ID: 23505693

Or you have one another option too..

Map that particular network share in your machine.
Refer below for step by step procedure:

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/windowsxpnetworking/ht/mapnetworkdrive.htm

 

by: reb73Posted on 2009-01-30 at 02:57:45ID: 23506873

^
A note when backing up to UNC paths, the account which SQL Server is running under has to have rights on the remote UNC path.

You as a user mapping a drive locally will not make that mapped drive available to SQL Server, which runs as a service under a different account

 

by: rrjegan17Posted on 2009-01-30 at 03:56:46ID: 23507261

reb73,
        Usually, I hope these kind of backup and scheduling operations will be done from some kind of Administrator account. Hence didnt informed him about it..

Anyhow, if he is not doing from Administrative account, your added up one more important point.

 

by: kaparaPosted on 2009-02-17 at 18:28:38ID: 23666447

So where do I add the account?  I created a domain user account and made it local administrator on SQL member server.  SQL Server properties -> Startup Service Account -> Set the domain\user and password here?

 

by: kaparaPosted on 2009-02-17 at 19:08:59ID: 23666622

Get the following errors after changing Job owner to domain user and changing SQL agent in services to same domain admin account with local admin priveledges and full rights to network share.

SQL Server Scheduled Job 'Transaction Log Backup Job for DB Maintenance Plan 'Global Backup to Tambackup'' (0x4BA47DA429AF71448F93F2895F69467D) - Status: Failed - Invoked on: 2009-02-17 19:02:49 - Message: The job failed.  The Job was invoked by User DOMAIN\Joeplumber.  The last step to run was step 1 (Step 1).

3041 :
BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP LOG [SurfControl] TO  DISK = N'\\Server\SQL\SurfControl_tlog_200902171902.TRN' WITH  INIT ,  NOUNLOAD ,  NOSKIP ,  STATS = 10,  NOFORMAT

 

by: kaparaPosted on 2009-02-24 at 09:09:31ID: 23723682

no answers????

 

by: bhess1Posted on 2009-02-24 at 20:01:54ID: 23730115

The problem is that the 3041 error can indicate any number of issues, from not having sufficient disk space on the destination to not having completed a full DB backup first, to a corrupt destination file (not likely with a timestamped log backup).

Check the event logs on the destination and the source.

Try the command manually - does it work for you?  Does it work if you are logged in as the SQL Server user?

Verify permissions on the \\Server\SQL\ directory for the login being used from the SQL Server agent.

 

by: rrjegan17Posted on 2009-02-25 at 01:19:41ID: 23731630

That Domain user should be part of SQLUSERS group in that machine. Otherwise that user should not be able to run the job.

 

by: kaparaPosted on 2009-02-28 at 10:03:11ID: 23764615

Will give it a try.

 

by: rrjegan17Posted on 2009-10-11 at 19:18:04ID: 25548278

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