SQL Server will truncate the log file. Please see the SQL Server documentation for more information. Yes No. When trying to open the shared folders Outlook reports 'Unable to expand the folder. The set of folders could not be opened…' The message store filename is reported as Not available in Outlook account settings How do I move the data on my Softalk Share Server to another folder or drive?
This is just one of the ways to quickly reduce the size of the logs. Not the greatest, but very simple and effective. Also, keep in mind that when you truncate SQL transaction logs by this guide, all previous backups made in the Full Recovery model can be discarded.
In the training courses, Microsoft recommends that only the Full mode should be used for productive databases. However, many advanced administrators deliberately set up Simple recovery mode for their databases. In this case, there is a significant increase in performance for mass insert operations and when working with large binary data, which justifies some decrease in the possibilities of backup and recovery.
What is more important for your task — additional recovery options or maximum performance, so decide for yourself. I thank you so much for this! Awesome article and thanks to you bros!! Very nice information and clearly explained. I cleared around GB from the server, which is occupied by log files. Thank you! Never tell people to auto-shrink database files, this will kill your performance. Shrinking logs in a crisis is fine but you should never shrink you mdf files.
If your low on space buy more! Hi, Once you made sure all the required permission including adding the service account part of server local admins group.
Also make sure the guest interaction proxy is same subnet of your SQL server. This is another trick you can use in order to truncate SQL logs correctly. Set it there to log backup. Ok, I have an update The BackupExec job was indeed not truncating the database. I looked at the properties of the database in question within Enterprise Manager and saw that the last date for the data backup was last night, but the transaction log had never been backed up.
So, I manually backed up the trans log, then was able to do the shrink command to drop the trans log down to like 1. I believe the shrink command had previously not done much since the trans log had not been backed up. I did not add anything new in BackupExec, since this was more of a 1-time thing. Once we clear out the database, going forward, we will change things if needed. The database does not regularly get this large only because it has never been truncated over a few years , so I don't think anything else is needed at this point.
Thanks for the help everyone. I'm glad I was able to get this resolved. Create a separate folder for holding the backups, and use a separate disk if possible.
Then, have the backup guy be responsible for backing up your directory of backup files and not the actual database. To do a restore you either work without him to restore from your backup directory, or you have him restore your backup files and you restore from there. Otherwise you might as well just forget about doing any administration whatsoever, because you cetainly are not in control.
It sounds like your backup group has been blindly backing up your DB without capturing your transaction logs. If that was the case then you were set-up to get royally screwed, and you didn't even know it. To crystalize it, you've likely been getting useless backups. Rule 1 in backup strategies is to test the backup. Both of your warnings make sense.
I came into this with other people doing these types of things, but it looks like I can't really rely on them doing it right. I think I will look into the suggestion of making file backups on my own that then get backed up, separately from the BackupExec stuff.
I will also look closer at the backup job that is being done and see if it is doing anything useful. I'm pretty sure they are as a few months agothe entire server had to be restored from backup as a drive failed or something.
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