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Hi Gert, This isn't a situation we've seen before, but Chris's advice is the best course for now. If you need help deleting the file physically, it'd be easiest to raise a support ticket with support@red-gate.com - it should be straightforward enough, but there might be some back-and-forth.
We'll look into adding a way of deleting clones in this state without having to database-dive.
Owen
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Hi Gert,This isn't a situation we've seen before, but Chris's advice is the best course for now. If you need help deleting the file physically, it'd be easiest to raise a support ticket with suppor...
That's certainly much longer than we'd expect just to unmount. If you see that kind of behaviour again, please feel free to log a support ticket and we'll try to get to the bottom of it. / comments
That's certainly much longer than we'd expect just to unmount. If you see that kind of behaviour again, please feel free to log a support ticket and we'll try to get to the bottom of it.
Hi everyone, This was just released for PowerShell in SQL Clone 4.4. We'll be working on adding it to the web UI soon.
There's now a -CompactImage parameter to New-SqlCloneImage. If left unset, it'll default to None (current behaviour - no compaction). Setting it to Compact will shrink the image file after the modifications step, so if you've used modifications to reduce the amount of data in your database and then shrink it (i.e. dropping tables and then running DBCC SHRINKDATABASE), you should find yourself with a smaller image. Image compaction isn't supported on Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2, as the underlying compaction feature is wildly different in performance and reliability on those versions of Windows. Image creation will proceed, but the compaction parameter will be ignored. Thanks! / comments
Hi everyone,This was just released for PowerShell in SQL Clone 4.4. We'll be working on adding it to the web UI soon.
There's now a -CompactImage parameter to New-SqlCloneImage. If left unset, it'l...
Hi jakob, Right now, there's no facility for images to shrink when the amount of data inside them is reduced. However, making this possible is a fairly common request, so we intend to tackle this issue fairly soon - probably within the next couple of months. Keep an eye on the release notes! / comments
Hi jakob,Right now, there's no facility for images to shrink when the amount of data inside them is reduced. However, making this possible is a fairly common request, so we intend to tackle this is...
Hi newbieDBA,
1.8 TB is the rough threshold where Clone switches from using one image format (one that's backwards-compatible with older versions of Windows, e.g. Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2) to a newer format that only works on more modern versions of Windows. It sounds your installation of Clone is having issues creating images in the newer format. We'll probably need to have a look at your Clone logs to sort things out. The best option is to get in touch with support@red-gate.com, who are best equipped to get this solved - they'll track the issue and solve it with the dev team.
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Hi newbieDBA,
1.8 TB is the rough threshold where Clone switches from using one image format (one that's backwards-compatible with older versions of Windows, e.g. Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2) to a...
Hi TRue, the fix is still on the way - it didn't make its way into 3.1.7 after all unfortunately, but you can expect it in 3.1.8. Sorry for the delay! / comments
Hi TRue, the fix is still on the way - it didn't make its way into 3.1.7 after all unfortunately, but you can expect it in 3.1.8. Sorry for the delay!
Hi Shawn, There definitely won't be any need to start over - your existing SQL Clone agents will notice when you install Data Masker alongside them, and will use it to mask images during creation. It'll just be a matter of installing Data Masker alongside the agents, using its GUI to create a masking set file, and supplying that file while creating an image. Here's a bit of documentation to get you started, and feel free to get in touch with support or sales if you need more time to evaluate. / comments
Hi Shawn,There definitely won't be any need to start over - your existing SQL Clone agents will notice when you install Data Masker alongside them, and will use it to mask images during creation. I...
That's unusual! It might be simplest to raise a ticket with support@red-gate.com, so that we can suss things out from the SQL Clone/SQL Server log files. I'll post any solution in this thread for future reference. / comments
That's unusual! It might be simplest to raise a ticket with support@red-gate.com, so that we can suss things out from the SQL Clone/SQL Server log files. I'll post any solution in this thread for f...
Not a lot to go on! While the SQL Clone Server doesn't currently need .NET 4.7.2, the Agent service does, and will ask you if you're happy for it to download and install that version if it's not already installed. It sounds like this time it wasn't able to, possibly due to network difficulties. Does the machine have access to the Internet? What happens if you try to install .NET 4.7.2 yourself? / comments
Not a lot to go on! While the SQL Clone Server doesn't currently need .NET 4.7.2, the Agent service does, and will ask you if you're happy for it to download and install that version if it's not al...
Hi ravi, We've done some internal investigation and have been able to reproduce the issue on a machine with .NET v4.6.2 installed. There's a couple of options that fall out of that. You can either: 1) update .NET to v4.7.2 on the machine where you're trying to install Clone Server, or 2) install SQL Clone 3.0.7, which will resolve this issue without needing to update .NET (but you'll have to wait for us to release it, because the latest released version is still 3.0.6 [image] ) Thanks for reporting this! Owen / comments
Hi ravi,We've done some internal investigation and have been able to reproduce the issue on a machine with .NET v4.6.2 installed.There's a couple of options that fall out of that. You can either:1)...