Odd values in msdb.dbo.backupset

  • I'm seeing a series of entries in my backupset table that have a null value for name and the size is always 6144. The type is always full backup.

    Does anyone have any suggestions where these might be coming from?

    Thanks

    Kenneth

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  • Are they consistently at the same time of day, or days of the week, or any sort of temporal pattern like that?

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  • Yes. They are between 8pm and midnight every night. Unfortunately we use a 3rd party scheduling tool and have several thousand jobs over all. There is no way I know of for me track it down from that direction. We also have a 3rd party backup tool that we used to use but I've already checked that and wasn't able to see anything.

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  • It would be one of the jobs in that 3rd party tool. Unfortunately, it looks like an iterative process to find which it may be at this point.

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  • Can you run a server-side trace, get the command that's issued at the beginning of it, and see where that's coming from? Won't give you a job name, but might give you more data about what it's trying to do.

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  • ..or try checking the the Sql log 😉

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