User profile for James Moore

Hi, Yep you are right, SQL Backup will handle the backup's but it is left to the SQL Agent to continue doing the scheduling so for your maintaince plans to work (and your scheduled backups to run) you will need to keep the SQL Agent running. - James / comments

Hi, Yep you are right, SQL Backup will handle the backup's but it is left to the SQL Agent to continue doing the scheduling so for your maintaince plans to work (and your scheduled backups to run) ...

0 votes

Hi Sangha, I was aware of this behaviour and can't quite make my mind up if it is/should be a bug or is the correct behaviour, I can see that it some cases it can be seen as a bug however in other cases (where the drop is temporary and someone intends to recreate the database) I don't think it is a bug. Do you have any strong arguments for getting rid of the activity history which I have not thought of? If so I would be interested in hearing them. Many thanks, - James / comments

Hi Sangha, I was aware of this behaviour and can't quite make my mind up if it is/should be a bug or is the correct behaviour, I can see that it some cases it can be seen as a bug however in other ...

0 votes

Thanks for the heads up Brian, We will get someone to look into this and try and understand what's going on. - James / comments

Thanks for the heads up Brian, We will get someone to look into this and try and understand what's going on. - James

0 votes

Hi Julian, I have bugs relating to both of these so copy functionality for both will be in the final release - probably on a right click menu and Ctrl-C. Thanks once again for all the feedback, - James / comments

Hi Julian, I have bugs relating to both of these so copy functionality for both will be in the final release - probably on a right click menu and Ctrl-C. Thanks once again for all the feedback, - J...

0 votes

Hi Julian, Thats quite a nice idea, we havn't considered it yet but we might well - if not for the final release of v5 then perhaps v5.2 - although we would probably allow people to use the CONVERT command via the GUI. I.E. EXECUTE master..sqlbackup '-SQL "CONVERT ''C:\backups\pubs.sqb'' TO ''C:\backups\pubs.bak''"' Thanks for the idea, I have passed it on to our usability team. - James / comments

Hi Julian, Thats quite a nice idea, we havn't considered it yet but we might well - if not for the final release of v5 then perhaps v5.2 - although we would probably allow people to use the CONVERT...

0 votes

Hi Julian, Could you please check your log files and see if SQL Backup has written anything to them for that attempted backup - they are normally in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Red Gate\SQL Backup\Log\<instance_name> unless the location has been changed in the tools->options menu. If you could either post the appropriate log file here or email it to me (james.moore >at< red-gate.com) then that would be great. Thanks, - James / comments

Hi Julian, Could you please check your log files and see if SQL Backup has written anything to them for that attempted backup - they are normally in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application ...

0 votes

Hi Uros, Thanks for the feedback, There is an issue with the service where by if your local number formatting uses a , rather than a . as the decimal point the service fails writing the activity history to our database and thus the backups and restores do not appear in the grid/timeline. This will be fixed in the final release. In the mean time you might be able to get around it by setting your number format to use . rather than , as a decimal separator. Sorry for any inconvience and thanks for letting us know. - James / comments

Hi Uros, Thanks for the feedback, There is an issue with the service where by if your local number formatting uses a , rather than a . as the decimal point the service fails writing the activity hi...

0 votes

Hi Gregor, gsuttie wrote: Initial inmpressiosn are very good - looks very neat so far. Thanks for the feedback, gsuttie wrote: I have tried a whole rft of things and they all seem to work perfectly but I did notice a few minor things so I joted them down:- Bug? I tried scheduling a job to run in 1 minute and it didnt run - so it says failed. not sure why - anyway then I clicked start and it ran and it said successfull and updating status but in the main window in the job tab the outcome is failed - is that a bug or does that mean the job ran successfully but failed in its task? - UPDATED - yeah it worked once i figured out where it shows you what was wrong. We just had a quick discussion about this and the reason is that the job started successfully - it did not necessaryly complete successfully - the result in the grid are the results of the run - IE the job started successfully but the back up failed. To see the reason why the backup failed double click that row in the grid to see the properties dialog. gsuttie wrote: In ther View Menu it could do with a refresh as I dont like having to click the treeview in software - never found it particularly reliable - does F5 work?. F5 should work if you have a server or database selected. I will put your comment about the view menu into our issue tracking database and we will look at it when we review all of the menus and context menus. gsuttie wrote: Is it possible to send to multiple email addresses seperated by a semi-colon perhaps? You can do this by separating each email address by a , IE: jon.doe@red-gate.com, jane.doe@red-gate.com. I will look at the text around the email address boxes and see if we can give the user a prompt about this feature. gsuttie wrote: Emails arent being sent - nothing in badmail folder either. Could you check the server options and make sure your SMTP host etc are set up correctly - also get it to send a test email from that dialog and see if it works correctly? gsuttie wrote: What does File delete do? - the menu option was available and didnt ask me for any confirmation of what im about to delete. This deletes the currently selected server registration/server group. This is unclear in the beta and the menu option will be moved to a new Edit menu in the final release with a possible text change. gsuttie wrote: If no file is available the properties option could be greyed out. We will look at the enabled/disabled state of this menu item and button, however there can still be some use for this if there is a warning related to this backup/restore or if you just want confirmation that your backup occured without problems. I will pass this on to our usability experts. Once again thanks for taking the time to provide us with feedback. - James / comments

Hi Gregor, gsuttie wrote: Initial inmpressiosn are very good - looks very neat so far. Thanks for the feedback, gsuttie wrote: I have tried a whole rft of things and they all seem to work perfe...

0 votes

There are a few known problems with the remote install in the beta, I would image you have hit one of those. This can happen when the install was unable to get enough permissions to install on the server remotely. If you copy c:\program files\red gate\sql backup\sqbserversetup.exe to the remote server and run in manually it should install without any problems. - James / comments

There are a few known problems with the remote install in the beta, I would image you have hit one of those. This can happen when the install was unable to get enough permissions to install on the ...

0 votes

Hi Urosd, Firstly thanks for the feedback, Urosd wrote: When you choose another database, the timeline does not refresh. The timline refreshes only when you click on the Activity History tab. This is very disturbing, becouse you never know, if the timline is appropriate for the chosen database. The timeline refreshes itself every 30 seconds (in the beta you will notice a slight flicker in the dark, future area at present) this flicker will not be there in the final release. Clicking on the activity history tab should not cause a refresh in itself. If you zoom right in you will see the ticker and the "dark gray" future area moving independently, the ticker is "now" the dark gray future area is the present/future at the last update. I hope this explains the behaviour you are seeing. Urosd wrote: In general the first fellings with working with the program are good. Thanks once again and keep the feedback coming even if it seems trivial - every little helps. Thanks, - James / comments

Hi Urosd, Firstly thanks for the feedback, Urosd wrote: When you choose another database, the timeline does not refresh. The timline refreshes only when you click on the Activity History tab. This...

0 votes

How can we help you today?

James Moore

Comments