Transaction log backups failed with what looks like a network error

  • We have a dedicated backup Share that we have been doing our Backups to for years. Yeserday afternoon my TLOG backups failed with this message:

    BackupDiskFile::CreateMedia: Backup device '\\KOCXRAID01\SQLBackup\KOCSQL01-TOWERPROD\Modify_Title_tlog_201009091500.TRN' failed to create. Operating system error = 53(The network path was not found.).

    and

    [Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000)] Error 3201: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot open backup device '\\KOCXRAID01\SQLBackup\KOCSQL01-TOWERPROD\TowerDB_tlog_201009091500.TRN'. Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more details.

    [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.

    I immediately reran the job and it the TLOG backups finished successfully in a matter of seconds.

    I can't confirm that there was any kind of Network problem or blip at that time and I have other servers that do TLOG backups to this same network device at the same time and none of the other backups from these other servers failed. Any ideas?

  • Sounds like just a quick network blip. It only has to be down for a few seconds while the backup job looks for that directory to throw an error.

    Have you had any issues/failures since then? If not, I would just ignore it. I've had that happen on my network occasionally.

  • No problems since. Thank you for your insight!

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