Hello,
Backup Exec 2010 R2 on Windows 2003 Server / SQL Server 2005.
We have removed certain filetype from backups by adding that filetype into the global excludes list.
We know that it should be safe to delete the remaining files from backups m...
Hello!
I have been searching alot and found several articles about the Backup Exec's maximum path limits
for BE 2010 and newer versions. I keep running into the 256 character -limit that is the known limit for NTFS -
file system. I know that Backup...
Hello,
I'm about to update from SSR 2011 to 2013 and I want to keep all the
settings, paths, policies, etc as they are at the moment. I have the installation
media Downloaded on my current server. Should I install into the default directory
or ch...
Thank you for the advise!
We shall consider running the SHRINK command, and will let
you know if we decide to try this on the production DB...
Regards,
Jukka
I understand that the DB does not contain any actual files, but the DB shrinking is
the final goal we are looking for.
There seem to be a lot of discussion about the DBCC SHRINKFILE -function in
all around the SQL forums.
Some say it could be ver...
Thanks for the quick response!
The files are .PST -files, and to clarify the issue:
When we run a report from the database before and after deleting the PST -files,
the size of the database will not decrease at all, it will remain the same.
So no...
This is actually the answer I was hoping for. When the NTFS filesystem is setting this kind of limits for the path length, it certainly is not very smart to try to force the backup environment to exceed this limit!
Thank you so much for you answers!...
