Transaction log backup failure in SQL Server 2005

  • On checking the transaction log backup maintenance plan history i found the following error desciption :

    "Transaction (Process ID 65) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.

    Could not insert a backup or restore history/detail record in the msdb database. This may indicate a problem with the msdb database. The backup/restore operation was still successful.

    What could be the possible cause for the transaction log failure. After the failure the job was manually triggered and it executed successfully.

  • check the error log..

  • It's look like your T-log backup gets completed but entry in the msdb database (Backupset table) is failing. Check if the entries of backup's are going into Backupset table or not.

    If you taking T-Log backup from maintanance plan and you have choosen to Clean-up history task then there are chances that cleanup history task is locking the entry in msdb.

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