Transaction logs are unavailable to backup

  • I am tring to backup the tansaction logs of a DB in Enterprise Manager and when I select Backup under Management and backup a database, I am unable to select the transaction logs as a choice. Is there a reason why it is grayed out.

  • Is the database set to the Simple recovery model?

    Greg

    Greg

  • Which database? Some system databases cannot have the log backed up. Master is one. It is always in SIMPLE mode.

    -SQLBill

  • It is a user defined database not one of the system DB's

  • Yes the database is set to Simple recovery model. Should it be set to full and will this cause me any problems if I change it to full?

  • It won't cause any problems, except the Log file could grow larger. You will have to do log backups on a regular basis.

    -SQLBill

  • Thanks that fixed my issue.

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