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Does Backup Exec Dump SQL Server Backups to disk first?

mderobio
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Over the weekend I was surprised to discover that Backup Exec was dumping our SQL Server databases.  What led me to this discovery was that we were out of space on the C drive on the production server.  This is bad.  

It looks as if BE dumps to disk first and then moves those dumps to tape.  Is this the case?  Since I already had another script doing database backups (but not to the C drive !!!), it's now not 100% clear what is doing what and why.  I'm not sure how BE works but I do not see any backup devices defined in SQL Server so I have concluded that it must dump to disk first.  But then I cannot see where I could change that behavior, maybe to dump to another drive.  

 

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Colin_Weaver
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We only use an actual DUMP process for our own SQL express instance as part of maintenance of the BEDB

 

The backup process uses VSS (and I guess an API call into the SQL backup process)

 

It is possible if you can recnfigure the operating system or filesystem so that VSS requests get stored on a different volume that this might solve your issue

 

However that said, mainly for performance reasons, Microsoft do not recommend running SQL databases on the C: drive anyway so if this is what you have done you might want to relocate your SQL databases to a different volume

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Colin_Weaver
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Employee Accredited Certified

We only use an actual DUMP process for our own SQL express instance as part of maintenance of the BEDB

 

The backup process uses VSS (and I guess an API call into the SQL backup process)

 

It is possible if you can recnfigure the operating system or filesystem so that VSS requests get stored on a different volume that this might solve your issue

 

However that said, mainly for performance reasons, Microsoft do not recommend running SQL databases on the C: drive anyway so if this is what you have done you might want to relocate your SQL databases to a different volume