Master Log Backup Issue

  • We run a script to check the blocking issues every morning. We find a LogBack up job for master db running everyday. But the Backup team doesn't see it on their systems. The backup team says, they are not running any backup job . But this backup job shows up in the process Info. So, we manually kill it everyday. It takes a lot of wait time. We can't find where it comes from ?

    Below is the info from the Process Info Page

    Process ID : 86

    User: ABC\Admistrator

    Database: Master

    Status: Runnable

    Open Transactions: 0

    Command: Backup Log

    Application: Symantec Backup Exec for Windows

    Wait Time: 42600844

    WaitType: NetworkIO

    CPU : 0

    Physical IO: 12

    memory Used: 1

    Login Time: 5/19/2008 10:04:53 PM

    Host: XYZ

    Network Library : LPC

    Network Address: 0015C58947C3

    Blocked by : 0

    Blocking : 0

    This is the info from the Process details

    BACKUP LOG [abc_xyc] TO virtual_device = 'abc_xyz_00__bfbdb0fa_9b94_4392_8ce0_0719ad2a00c5_' WITH NO_TRUNCATE

    Master DB Properties

    Size: 71MB

    Space Available : 17MB

    No of users: 49

    Data File location: c:\ProgramFiles\MicrosoftSQLserver\MSSQL\data\master.mdf

    Automatically grow file (enabled) 10%

    Transaction Log File: c:\ProgramFiles\MicrosoftSQLserver\MSSQL\data\mastlog.ldf

    Automatically grow file (enabled) 10%

    Reocovery Model (Master): Simple

    Auto update stats, and Auto create stats enabled.

    SQL server 2000.

    Please let me know if any one knows what the problem was??

    Thanks

    Rahul

  • You cannot backup the log for the master database. It is in SIMPLE recovery model which does not require a log backup to be done. This cannot be changed for the master database.

    It looks like you are using Symantec Backup Exec to do SQL Server backups. Check the configuration of it. Or check the manual to see how Backup Exec tries to backup databases. Better yet, ditch it altogether and use SQL Server to do the backups to disk, then get Backup Exec to backup those flat files. Much simpler (assuming you have the disk space available).



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