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By: Jordon B

Jordon B — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:31:32 +0000

@Murali,

USE MSDB
SELECT * FROM Backupset

From there you can filter what information you need via the WHERE clause.

We use that T-SQL above for our DRS site. Our admins there just click the batch file we made and it restores all differentials and translogs.

Commandline would be:

SQLCMD -S -E -d msdb -h-1 -W -Q “”

-E is for trusted connection
We use -h-1 so we don’t have to see header information. Makes it easier to parse the data returned.
-W removes any trailing spaces.

I know this was a little late, but I thought this might help anyone.

By: Murali

Murali — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:36:10 +0000

HI Pinal,

i have dought in Backups,
how to find out current LSN number of a backup by using command prompt.

Thanks& Regards
Murali

By: Rathnakar

Rathnakar — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:23:11 +0000

excellent Pinal

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By: Dileep Kumar

Dileep Kumar — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:20:49 +0000

awesome Pinal ..

By: RAJU BANDARU

RAJU BANDARU — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:21:26 +0000

Very good to understand …….

By: Luca Vallo

Luca Vallo — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:58:16 +0000

Hello Pinal, nice job!
I’d like to add that, if you have to restore a splitted backup, the sequence of the files included in the RESTORE DATABASE statement doesn’t matter

For example:

RESTORE DATABASE AdventureWorks
FROM DISK=N’E:\AdventureWorks2.bak’,
DISK=N’D:\AdventureWorks1.bak’
with (…)

will work fine.
Obviously, you have to speccify all of the files the backup in splitted in, the sequence in unimportant.
Cheers!

By: Matteo

Matteo — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:57:02 +0000

Hello Pinal, nice job!
I’d like to add that, if you have to restore a splitted backup, the sequence of the files included in the RESTORE DATABASE statement doesn’t matter

For example:

RESTORE DATABASE AdventureWorks
FROM DISK=N’E:\AdventureWorks2.bak’,
DISK=N’D:\AdventureWorks1.bak’
with (…)

will work fine.
Obviously, you have to speccify all of the files the backup in splitted in, the sequence in unimportant.
Cheers!

By: Ayham Mohammad

Ayham Mohammad — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:25:30 +0000

Thanks a lot,
this way we can gain a high availability when mirroring,
i’d like to ask how to do this in a maintenance plan in SQL2k8.
Regards,

By: Sanjeev

Sanjeev — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 08:12:06 +0000

Hi dave,

When w are taking backups on multiple drives using mirror option, will it be more time consuming?

Regards,

sanjeev Kumar

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Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:31:07 +0000

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By: sam

sam — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:14:29 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I m little bit confussed here in ur example u have specifed that u r having two USB of 8 GB each.

so the drive path for the USB will be different are you saying that we can split the 14 GB database backup into two file like 7GB each.

Can u please clarify.

I have understood ur concept.

Regards
sam

By: vadim

vadim — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:33:08 +0000

Hi, we have several mirrored databases.
What is the ‘correct’ way of backing up the mirrored dbs?
Recently we had a situation when after a couple of the dbs have failed over, the backup job failed to complete as the dbs status had changed from principal to mirrored.
Should we setup identical backup jobs on both servers in anticipation that only one job succeed against the principal database…

Your help would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Vadim

By: Pinal Dave

Pinal Dave — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:10:39 +0000

Hello Nafiseh,

Create a network drive for your local disk and then backup on the network drive.
Other wise take the backup on the server’s disk and then copy to your local disk.

Regards,
Pinal Dave

By: Nafiseh

Nafiseh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:25:07 +0000

Dear sir
thank you for your helpful blog,
i have a question and i am so confused about this problem , i am a beginner and i would be happy if you help me ,
is there any way to back up from a database (sqlserver)
into the local computer ??
i mean i want to make a back up in my local computer from server .
thanks alot

By: ishtiaq ahmed

ishtiaq ahmed — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:12:45 +0000

Before you apply for restore make sure you try to use TailLog backup or use the optoin “Restore SQL Server database and overwrite existing database” on SSMS. or you can use Replace on T-SQL.

T-SQL

Restore full backup using WITH REPLACE
The command below will restore the database and disregard any active data in the current transaction log

RESTORE DATABASE [AdventureWorks]
FROM DISK = N’C:\Backup\MultiFile\AdventureWorks1.bak’,
DISK = N’C:\Backup\MultiFile\AdventureWorks2.bak’,
DISK = N’C:\Backup\MultiFile\AdventureWorks3.bak’
WITH REPLACE
GO

Reference

http://www.mssqltips.com/tutorial.asp?tutorial=121

http://www.sqlbackuprestore.com/backingupthetail.htm

By: harishkumar

harishkumar — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:19:56 +0000

Hi Pinal,

i have dought in Backups

1)In Backups how to find out sequential backup.

what is the command.?

2) In log backup ,lsn are miss-matched.
you have a 10 log backups there which is suitable to find out to your log backup?
3) what is fork -lsn?

Thanks &Regrads
harishkumar.M

By: andreac

andreac — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:50:37 +0000

Great Mr. Pinal!
Is there a way to add mirroring to backup database task (in sql 2005 maintenance Plans)?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:09:14 +0000

Great tutorial as usual, Pinal. I might add, though, that mirroring backups are only available on Enterprise Edition. If you run it with those keywords, you’ll get this nice delicious error:

Msg 3218, Level 16, State 1, Line 9
Backup mirroring is not available in this edition of SQL Server. See Books Online for more details on feature support in different SQL Server editions.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 9
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.

By: Manikandan.N

Manikandan.N — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:45:28 +0000

Hi Mr.Pinal,

I’ve been working 1.5 yr as a developer in ASP.Net. i had more helps from your blog. Really its unbelievable.You are giving to hand to more DBA and developer people.for that my heartiest thanks

By: Shivaprakash

Shivaprakash — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:45:26 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I am a new learner of SQL but you explained it so easily that it really rocks!!

Thank you so much.This will help me a lot in my application.

By: Speednet

Speednet — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:06:53 +0000

@pinal, thanks very much for this clear explanation of what can be a maddening topic in SQL Server. Your blog is tops!

By: Nitin Sharma

Nitin Sharma — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:46:04 +0000

Morning Pinal,
This is one of the best Post that i have liked..Excellent explanation..!!!! Really really excellent…!!

Gr8 going…

Thanks,
Nitin Sharma

By: Krunal

Krunal — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:04:03 +0000

Hi Pinal,

Excellent explanation. Now this one is one of my best favorite post. Really liked it.

Thanks,