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TLOG GROWING VERY LARGE
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shohelr2003
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Posted Saturday, December 22, 2012 4:12 AM
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Hi,
I have implemented mirroring (high safety without automatic failover) and replication (snapshot replication) simaltaneously on the same database. But my tlog started growing very large which cause backup file to be grown as well. I take full backup everyday once.
What can I do to prevent tlog from growing? Is there any inconsistency with my backup plan?
Please help me to sort out the problem.
Regards,
Akbar
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GilaMonster
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Posted Saturday, December 22, 2012 5:36 AM
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shohelr2003 (12/22/2012)
I take full backup everyday once.
That's not enough.
Please read through this -
Managing Transaction Logs
Gail Shaw
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shohelr2003
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Posted Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:04 PM
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That's not enough.
Please suggest me what can I do to prevent tlog from growing. In addition to, I need your support to develop an effective backup plan. What activities should my backup plan include?
I am also reading your two links.
Please help me.
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Ravi SQL
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Posted Saturday, December 22, 2012 11:16 PM
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Taking full backup once in a day is not enough, you need to take backup of transaction log as well to truncate the log file. Once the transaction log backup is taken, the inactive portion of the log (all its log records) will be captured in the log backup.
Link given by Gail Shaw is good one to understand how the transaction log works.
Regards,
Ravi.
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shohelr2003
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Posted Sunday, December 23, 2012 12:57 AM
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Imagine that I take one full backup at the beginning of the day and later on take four log backups at two hours interval and again take another full backup at the end of the day.
How is this backup plan? Please suggest me.
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GilaMonster
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Posted Sunday, December 23, 2012 2:43 AM
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shohelr2003 (12/22/2012)
That's not enough.
Please suggest me what can I do to prevent tlog from growing. In addition to, I need your support to develop an effective backup plan. What activities should my backup plan include?
Please read the articles I referenced.
Gail Shaw
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GilaMonster
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shohelr2003 (12/23/2012)
Imagine that I take one full backup at the beginning of the day and later on take four log backups at two hours interval and again take another full backup at the end of the day.
How is this backup plan? .
Does it allow you to restore the DB and meet your RPO and RTO requirements? If so, it's fine. If not, it's inadequate.
There's no one-size-fits-all backup plan, it has to be tailored to meet the requirements for recovery for that DB.
Gail Shaw
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Joy Smith San
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Posted Sunday, December 23, 2012 11:14 AM
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Taking full backups do not truncate the logs, log backup does. I have faced this issue sometime back and log backups at appropriate intervals resolved the issue as well. You can check 'log_reuse_wait_desc' in sys.databases. Go through the link Gilas has mentioned, it will help to identify and solve your issue.
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shohelr2003
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Posted Sunday, December 30, 2012 9:54 PM
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Thanks All. My problem has been solved. Now I take log backup regularly. It prevents tlog to be grown abnormally.
Special thanks to Gail Shaws' links.
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