I used the SQL Server Maintenance Wizard (along with the book) to back up Full and Differentail. Full backups are performed on Monday morning, and the Differentials work from Tuesday to Saturday. A full backup is excellent and generates the next report via email ...
Microsoft(R) Server Maintenance Utility (Unicode) Version 10.0.2531 Report was generated on "WIN-F9U4VJXGWF5".
Maintenance Plan: FIREDataFB
Duration: 00:31:31
Status: Succeeded.
Details:
Clean Up History (WIN-F9U4VJXGWF5)
Cleanup history on Local server connection History type: Backup,Job,Maintenance Plan
Age: Older than 1 Weeks
Task start: 2010-10-11T03:30:03.
Task end: 2010-10-11T03:30:03.
Success
Command:declare @dt datetime select @dt = cast(N''2010-10-04T03:30:02'' as datetime) exec msdb.dbo.sp_delete_backuphistory @dt GO EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_purge_jobhistory @oldest_date=''2010-10-04T03:30:02''
GO
EXECUTE msdb..sp_maintplan_delete_log null,null,''2010-10-04T03:30:02''
GO
Back Up Database (Full) (WIN-F9U4VJXGWF5) Backup Database on Local server connection
Databases: FIREData
Type: Full
Append existing
Task start: 2010-10-11T03:30:03.
Task end: 2010-10-11T04:01:33.
Success
Command:EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N''F:\SQL Backups\FIREData''
GO
BACKUP DATABASE [FIREData] TO DISK = N''F:\SQL Backups\FIREData\FIREData_backup_2010_10_11_033003_7444370.bak'' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''FIREData_backup_2010_10_11_033003_7424370'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10 GO declare @backupSetId as int select @backupSetId = position from msdb..backupset where database_name=N''FIREData'' and backup_set_id=(select max(backup_set_id) from msdb..backupset where database_name=N''FIREData'' ) if @backupSetId is null begin raiserror(N''Verify failed. Backup information for database ''''FIREData'''' not found.'', 16, 1) end RESTORE VERIFYONLY FROM DISK = N''F:\SQL Backups\FIREData\FIREData_backup_2010_10_11_033003_7444370.bak'' WITH FILE = @backupSetId, NOUNLOAD, NOREWIND
GO
Differential backups do not start. They fail with an error indicating that Differential Jobs cannot find the result of a full backup. The following email report is sent when the differential job fails ...
Microsoft(R) Server Maintenance Utility (Unicode) Version 10.0.2531 Report was generated on "WIN-F9U4VJXGWF5".
Maintenance Plan: FIREDataDB
Duration: 00:00:01
Status: Warning: One or more tasks failed.
Details:
Back Up Database (Differential) (WIN-F9U4VJXGWF5) Backup Database on Local server connection
Databases: FIREData
Type: Differential
Append existing
Task start: 2010-10-12T03:30:03.
Task end: 2010-10-12T03:30:03.
Failed:(-1073548784) Executing the query "BACKUP DATABASE [FIREData] TO DISK = N'F:\\SQL Bac..." failed with the following error: "Cannot perform a differential backup for database "FIREData", because a current database backup does not exist. Perform a full database backup by reissuing BACKUP DATABASE, omitting the WITH DIFFERENTIAL option.
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
Command:EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N''F:\SQL Backups\FIREData''
GO
BACKUP DATABASE [FIREData] TO DISK = N''F:\SQL Backups\FIREData\FIREData_backup_2010_10_12_033003_4624370.bak'' WITH DIFFERENTIAL , NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N''FIREData_backup_2010_10_12_033003_4604370'', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10 GO declare @backupSetId as int select @backupSetId = position from msdb..backupset where database_name=N''FIREData'' and backup_set_id=(select max(backup_set_id) from msdb..backupset where database_name=N''FIREData'' ) if @backupSetId is null begin raiserror(N''Verify failed. Backup information for database ''''FIREData'''' not found.'', 16, 1) end RESTORE VERIFYONLY FROM DISK = N''F:\SQL Backups\FIREData\FIREData_backup_2010_10_12_033003_4624370.bak'' WITH FILE = @backupSetId, NOUNLOAD, NOREWIND
GO
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