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SQLBackup 5.4 Verify problem still exists with SQL2000
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I am starting to upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4 on my servers. One of the issues that was fixed in 5.4 was with a job that has VERIFY it would not always show the verify in the History and that the jo...
Wait Type of MSQL_XP
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I raised a question about wait type MSQL_XP in the Summer and was told it was fixed in 5.4. We currently have a unique situation where a backup is taking a very long time because of slow disk t...
SQLBackup and Compressed SQL2008 Databases
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I understand that SQLBackup 5.3 works with SQL2008 and 5.4 is needed if you are running on Windows 2008 Server. Hopefully 5.4 will be released soon.
SQL2008 includes the ability to compress the...
SQL Backup supporting SQL2008 on Windows 2003
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I just used the brand new SQL2008 Upgrade Advisor on an SQL2005 SP2 build 3239 SQL Server running on Windows 2003 SP2 and it flagged the SQL Backup extended stored procedures as extended stored...
Wait Type MSQL_XP on a log backup job
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Running 5.3.0.178 on SQL2005 build 3239 I have a job that is stuck with a waittype of MSQL_XP. I understand this means waiting on an extended stored procedure, in this case sqlbackup. All the o...
Next Version of SQL backup
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With SQL2008 now at RC0 level is the next version of SQL Backup going to be 5.4 and support all versions of MS SQL or will it be 6.0 to support SQL2008 and beyond?
I am just trying to get an id...
SQLBackup 5 using the COPY_ONLY option
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SQL2005 intriduced the with COPY_ONLY option. I can see that SQLBackup 5.3 has COPY_ONLY as a parameter but there is no actual description in Help. Is the SQLBackup COPY_ONLY option making what...
Backups from previous versions of Redgate
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I have been asked about being able to recover long term backups. We are using SQLBackup 5.2 and 5.3. If we take a backup using one of these versions of an SQL2005 database will I be able to res...
Restoring Databases in a DRP situation
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We have just completed a DRP exercise that involved restoring from backups taken by SQLBackup. In out DRP we are not backing up the actual database but the backups of the database. So after we ...
SQL Backup use in a DRP exercise
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We are about to attempt a DRP to another server. We have SQL Backup on the original server and this will be a complete recovery from the disk image to another server removing the first server f...