Backups failing over to network drive

  • Hi all,

    Occasionally backups will fail on our sql 2005 servers with the error: 18210, severity: 16, state: 1.

    Within the sql server logs it states "Backupdiskfile: requestdurablemedia: failure on backup device '\\share\folder'. Operating system error 64(The specified network name is no longer available)."

    After a bit of searching it appears this happens due to a network hiccup during backup.

    Is there a way to prevent this? Do you guys usually back up locally and then have some tool or code to transfer the files over somewhere else?

    Thanks in advance.

  • The best way to resolve this issue is to backup to a local disk then copy to your network resource. The network copy is more resilient to network issues where as the SQL Backup is much less tolerant of network issues.

  • Thanks Lynn. Anyway to automate this or do you do it manually? We have many servers and databases.

  • Yes, it can be automated. One way is to add an additional job step that handles the network copy.

  • chrisph (4/26/2010)


    Thanks Lynn. Anyway to automate this or do you do it manually? We have many servers and databases.

    EXEC master..xp_CMDShell 'XCOPY d:\srvr1\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup \\fs01\Backup\DBA02\srvr1\FINAL2\FULL /d/c/v/y'

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