09-04-2014 07:38 AM
Hi
I have a MSSQL server (2008 R2 Ent) with several instances and approximately 20 volumes delivered using guest-based ISCSI to some storage.
I back the databases up using SQL Agent (2014) and use ADBO off-host backup to perform these backups. Works great.
I wish to configure a Backup Log+Truncate job to run through one of the instances on a scheduled basis, eg. each Sunday. I am struggling to achieve this in the 2014 product:
I like the look of the new "Automatic" job type for SQL log Backups, where DBs in simple recovery mode won't cause a log+truncate job to fail, so i can target at the instance level rather than manually keeping a list of DBs up to date in the selection list.
What is the recommended approach, and what to do others do, when wishing to do a log+truncate on some databases when off-host backup is used?
I'm using Backup Exec 2014.
Thanks.
09-05-2014 02:17 AM
Afaik, if snapshot/VSS is used for SQL backups, then only full backups are supported and log backups are not.
I guess, only way to run log backups would be to run non-snapshot backups, i.e. without ADBO in your case.
09-05-2014 04:08 AM
Thanks for the reply.
Disappointing as in BE 2010 we could just run a stand-alone job separate to the ADBO job, to run a full log backup & truncate.
Is there a reason why this is not doable in BE 2014?
For clarity, when trying to configure a stand-alone job to do this, i do the following:
Now if i go to the "Microsoft SQL" section of the Backup Options, under the 'Full' template, my available Backup Methods are Full, and Full Copy.
Under the Incremental template, I get more choices and can choose Log Backup etc.
I already back up the database using ADBO (important for my environment, the SQL server is a VM and off-host backups of these ISCSI volumes are important operationally). So i do not want to do *another* full backup, especially one that is not off-host. I just want to truncate my SQL logs.
I know any Log backup would not be off-host, i can live with that.
Perhaps i am misunderstanding something fundamental about the process.
I can't be the only one to do off-host SQL backups, and still want to truncate my logs?
I know i can't do it all in one job, that is fine.
10-17-2014 03:44 PM
Hi Davei,
An incremental or log backup cannot be configured in Backup Exec 2012 and above, without a full database backup.
May I know what is the size of your database?
We can run a full back up only once without using snapshot technology and configure Incrementals to run on a daily basis which would truncate the logs.