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COPYTO to network share fails from time to time
Hi, I am using RedGate SQL Backup Pro v5.3 on SQL Server 2005 running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 server with 96GB of RAM. I am seeing COPYTO failures (warning 141) every now and then. I search...
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I've enclosed part of the log file generated for a sample backup if it helps: 9/22/2009 6:00:00 PM: BACKUP DATABASE [dbname] TO DISK = '<AUTO>' WITH NAME = '<AUTO>', DESCRIPTION = '<AUTO>', DIFFERENTIAL, INIT, ERASEFILES = 12h, COPYTO = '\\remote\E$\Backup\server\dbname', FILEOPTIONS = 1, COMPRESSION = 2 9/22/2009 6:03:11 PM: Backup data size : 3.755 GB 9/22/2009 6:03:11 PM: Compressed data size: 938.851 MB 9/22/2009 6:03:11 PM: Compression rate : 75.58% Processed 147232 pages for database 'dbname', file 'filename' on file 1. BACKUP DATABASE WITH DIFFERENTIAL successfully processed 491971 pages in 188.717 seconds (21.355 MB/sec). 9/22/2009 6:03:11 PM: Deleting old backup file: [image] \Backup\server\dbname\dbname_DIFF_20090921_180000.sqb 9/22/2009 6:03:11 PM:Deleting old backup file: \\remote\E$\Backup\server\dbname\dbname_DIFF_20090921_180000.sqb 9/22/2009 6:03:39 PM: Copied [image] \Backup\server\dbname\dbname_DIFF_20090922_180000.sqb to \\remote\E$\Backup\server\dbname\dbname_DIFF_20090922_180000.sqb. 9/22/2009 6:03:39 PM: SQL Backup process ended. 9/22/2009 6:03:39 PM: Deleted msdb entries older than 8/23/2009 6:03:39 PM 9/22/2009 6:03:39 PM: Deleted local history entries older than 8/23/2009 6:03:39 PM / comments
I've enclosed part of the log file generated for a sample backup if it helps: 9/22/2009 6:00:00 PM: BACKUP DATABASE [dbname] TO DISK = '<AUTO>' WITH NAME = '<AUTO>', DESCRIPTION = '<AUTO>', DIFFER...
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COPYTO, ERASEFILES and FILEOPTIONS
Hi, I backup to a drive on the primary server and use COPYTO to copy the backup to a remote network share. I also use ERASEFILES and FILEOPTIONS = 1. I have been noticing that old backup files get ...
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Question about ERASEFILES and MIRRORFILE
Hi, I had a couple of questions regarding ERASEFILES and MIRRORFILE. ERASEFILES = '7h'. Does this delete anything in the folder that is older than 7 hours when the backup starts or when the backup ...
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