Annoying issue - DB Backup Job Skipping DB's

  • I setup a Maintenance Plan to backup databases instead of our DBA SQL Agent job. Somehow random databases are being skipped. Sometimes upwards of 80% of them on a server. The agent log doesn't log any failures, just shows everything else being backed up but the skipped databases. How do I troubleshoot something that isn't even logged?

  • I remember running into that a while back. for whatever reason I could not put my finger on why other than assume the database status was something that resulted in the back being skipped.

    I got around it by setting up my own backup job processes. I needed to do that anyway because of the change in filename format that happened with 2008.

    The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

  • Our own backup job was doing the same thing...

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