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An article for someone new to SQL
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If you run your database in Full recovery, you need to backup your transaction log files. &nbsp;It sounds like you are backing up your data files. &nbsp;Here is a step by step guide to back up the log files. &nbsp;It's 2008, but it should still apply.<br />
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<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/john_daskalakis/archive/2010/02/09/9960381.aspx" rel="ugc">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/john_daskalakis/archive/2010/02/09/9960381.aspx</a><br />
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Greg<br />
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If you run your database in Full recovery, you need to backup your transaction log files.  It sounds like you are backing up your data files.  Here is a step by step guide to back up the log files.  It's 2008, but it should still apply.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/john_daskalakis/archive/2010/02/09/9960381.aspx [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/john_daskalakis/archive/2010/02/09/9960381.aspx]

Greg



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Thanks, I wil go over these and make a new post if I have any new questions
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Thanks, I wil go over these and make a new post if I have any new questions

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I got this message: <br />
Your SQL Server database is currently set to Full recovery model. Without regular transaction log backups, they will eventually consume all available disk space. <br />
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Looking for a article to setup backup correctly. I use backup exec for backup .bak files not live sql data.<br />

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I got this message: 
Your SQL Server database is currently set to Full recovery model. Without regular transaction log backups, they will eventually consume all available disk space. 

Looking for a article to setup backup correctly. I use backup exec for backup .bak files not live sql data.


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