RESTORE VERIFYONLY

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RESTORE VERIFYONLY

k.przewozniak

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March 12, 2008 at 7:02 am

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Hello,
Can you explain me if I can run RESTORE VERIFYONLY together with maintenance plan that makes a backup (to have backup verified just after is created) and how I can implement that?

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 1

You could schedule a job to run after the maintenance plan (or add a step) that runs this for a backup and then parse the results.

The maintenance plan should have a "verify" checkbox for the backup task. Look at that.

k.przewozniak Ten Centuries Points: 1133 More actions · Answer 2

I know there there is "verify" checkbox, but how do I know that this is doing the same thing like RESTORE VERIFYONLY ?

And how will I know that "verify" in maintenance plan, failed?

Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135369 More actions · Answer 3

if you tick "verify backup integrity" it performs this:

BACKUP DATABASE [admin] TO [adminFull] WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'admin_backup_20080312141909', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10

GO

declare @backupSetId as int

select @backupSetId = position from msdb..backupset where database_name=N'admin' and backup_set_id=(select max(backup_set_id) from msdb..backupset where database_name=N'admin' )

if @backupSetId is null begin raiserror(N'Verify failed. Backup information for database ''admin'' not found.', 16, 1) end

RESTORE VERIFYONLY FROM [adminFull] WITH FILE = @backupSetId, NOUNLOAD, NOREWIND

So that is what you should do. :w00t:

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135369 More actions · Answer 4

k.przewozniak (3/12/2008)
I know there there is "verify" checkbox, but how do I know that this is doing the same thing like RESTORE VERIFYONLY ?
And how will I know that "verify" in maintenance plan, failed?

If you build the MP, you can script the sql for it in SSMS