December 9, 2010 at 4:52 am
Hi,
I have created a job that makes backups.
Code sample:
declare @date as varchar(25)
Declare @Nome as varchar(50)
DECLARE Backups CURSOR FOR
SELECT name from sys.databases where state =0
order by name
set @date = convert(varchar,getdate(),120)
set @date = replace(replace(@date,'-',''),':','')
OPEN backups
FETCH NEXT FROM backups INTO @nome
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
exec('backup database '+@nome+' to disk =''c:\database_backups\'+@nome+'\'+@nome+'_'+@date+'.BAK''')
FETCH NEXT FROM backups INTO @nome
END
CLOSE backups
DEALLOCATE backups
The backups that are created by this job are name as:
e.g: SGI_20101209 111200.BAK
Now i would like to add to the name of the backup, the number of backup.
If the backup is the 3 backup of this database, i would like that the name become like this:
SGI_3_20101209 111200.BAK
Where can i get the information of the number of backup already made to this database?
December 9, 2010 at 5:25 pm
select count(*) from msdb..backupset where database_name = 'yourdb' and type = 'D'
However older backup history can be purged from this table by cleanup operations so unless you never run this purge and just allow the table to grow ad infinitum the info could be wrong. This table has an identity column backup_set_id you could use as an ever increasing number, but it would not reflect the actual number of backups for that database.
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December 10, 2010 at 2:36 am
What did you meant buy "cleanup operations" ?
Thank you
December 10, 2010 at 2:46 am
There's a stored procedure sp_delete_backuphistory that you can use to purge old backup records from the msdb database.
John
December 10, 2010 at 2:51 am
we don't use that.
Thanks for the tip.
December 10, 2010 at 3:47 am
The above proc would also be run if you use the history cleanup task in a maintenance plan and select Backup and restore history
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