I need some help for executing my planned backup strategy.
My database is about 1 gig in size.
I want to perform a full backup once per week, and incremental every hour.
Is all of this built into SQL Server 2005 Express?
Is it possible to roll over the backups so I only keep 1 months of backups?
Meaning the full weekly backup has 1 for each week, on the 5th week it writes over the oldest full backup.
You can do it, it's just harder.
You don't have maintenence plans, but that doesn't matter becuase they often cause more headaches than they solve. You will want to script the backup yourself.
The other issue is you won't have the SQL Server Agent, which is used for scheduling your scripts. You can solve this by using sqlcmd and the windows scheduler.
SQL Server express does not have the ability to setup maintenance plans, therefore you must manually execute the scripts. AFAIK.
With all other editions, a simple DB Maint. plan can be setup to do all of this, and it will even walk you through the process.
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I have an Azure VM - Windows (Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter). It has Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 running on it (version v10.50.6549).
The Azure VM has backups running according to a policy - and I can see in the backups blade for the VM that they are running nightly.
If I have an issue with the SQL Server, and need to roll back to a prior version of the database, will the File Recovery option from the VM backup be adequate?
Or should I also be running SQL Server backups via a maintenance plan on the server on the VM?
If I have an issue with the SQL Server, and need to roll back to a
prior version of the database, will the File Recovery option from the
VM backup be adequate?
Maybe. VM Backups don't always give you consistent SQL backups. They usually work, but not always. If you have everything setup just right and get consistent VM backups, it might be ok-- but you are running a fairly old OS on that VM, so I'd be nervous. Very nervous. If the data is really important to you, then you should backup the data, not just the VM. Sometimes you want to restore just the data to another VM to investigate, not the entire server. I also hope you have more than just "last night's VM backup" at any given time. Sometimes bad things happen on Friday and you don't notice until Monday.
Or should I also be running SQL backups via a maintenance plan on the
server on the VM?
Yes, you should be running SQL backups if you your data is important. If your data is really important (you don't want to lose half a day of it), you should be doing full backups periodically (e.g. nightly) transaction log backups many times per hour, and keeping a few weeks worth of backups in rotation. If your data is super-important (you don't want to lose more than a few seconds), you should be mirroring it over to another database server in near-time (asynchronously). If it is critical (you don't want to lose any data), then you want to mirror to another server in real-time (synchronously).
Of course, if you are already running in Azure and don't have a DBA, managing a database is a lot easier, safer, more available, and generally cheaper if you use Azure SQL rather than trying to manage your own instance SQL Server in a VM-- oh yeah, and backups are handled for you, with millisecond point-in-time recovery for up to 45 days-- and they handle the mirroring for you to. If you want to mirror to another region across the country, you do have to pay extra for that, though.
In Sql server 2000 version I found there is daily full backups are going on for all databaeses at one particular time.
But I didn't found any maintainance plan or any job or any windows task schedule to take the backups.
Here my point is how the backups are going on automatically? I want to find out how?
Please help
This is my final hopes for expecting answer. Question is: How to do automated incremental backup in SQL Server only for 5 days? and how to schedule in task schedule tool. Please help me.
You might be confusing differential backups with incremental Backups.SQLServer doesn't have a concept of incremental backups..
You might get incremental effect (only backup what has been changed,from last backup) using Tlog*..Idea goes like this..
1.Take a Full Backup
2.Each day, by the end of day take Tlog backup
To Clarify,When you need to restore the backups /make database usable,you will need to restore Fullbackup ,followed by Tlog backups in order
*This is very Risky since ,it reduces your risk of restoring to a point in time
You can create a maintenance plan in SQL Server containing 2 parts:
A back up task for executing a backup every day (or every 5 days)
A clean up task for deleting all the backups older than 5 days.
Once created, you can plan it as a job in SQL Agent. Here's a great example about how to do it: Create a maintenance backup plan in SQL Server 2008 R2 using the wizard by Kyle Laffoon.
I need to be able to script the following process and would be grateful for any guidance in achieving it!
We have a live database which is backed up every night (SQL 2008 R2). We have a 3rd party which requires access to the database but management have decided they can have access to a time-delayed copy instead. So I have been tasked with restoring the previous nights backup to another SQL instance, complete with login information to which the 3rd party can access without impacting the live database.
I believe a script could perform the task, except the backup file name is not constant (i.e databasename_2015_02_15_223005_3661110) and I can't figure out a way of automating a restore without knowing the backup name. We keep 3 days of full backups on the server before they are archived.
Instead should I be looking at either snapshots or replication to produce the 24 hour delayed copy?
We recently moved from a simple DB recovery model (with daily full database dumps) on our SQL Server 2000 Standard database to full recovery -- combined with weekly full database backups, daily incremental, and transaction dumps every 10 minutes.
Our previous reporting DB instance (SQL Server 2005) was built from the daily backups which no longer exist. I can re-build the reporting database by loading the weekly dump, leaving it in recovery mode, and then restore the incremental backups. Unfortunately, this is not easily scriptable and doing this by hand sucks.
Taking additional full backups of the 2000 production database will ruin the incrementals (which are desirable for a number of reasons).
Is there a better way to do this? We can't do log shipping since we're only SQL Server 2000 Standard (eventually we'll upgrade to 2K5).
Depending on how up-to-date your data needs to be, snapshot replication seems like the best fit for you. It's not that difficult to set up and I believe that it's fairly common in scenarios like yours.