Backup frequency details from backup history

  • Hi,

    I have many backup frequency scheduled as Jobs or External CommVault in my server environment.

    I just want to know if there is a way to identify the backup frequency if it's daily, weekly and monthly scheduled backup.

    Backup may be either scheduled from Jobs or External CommVault.(So I cannot go with Jobs tables alone)

    Query needs fetch details from backup History tables.

    Any comments/suggestion is highly appriciated.

    Thanks,

    Bala

  • Hopefully, this will help. It gets the information from msdb on job schedules. You will need to edit it to your purposes.

    IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#xp_results') IS NOT NULL

    BEGIN

    DROP TABLE #xp_results

    END

    CREATE TABLE #xp_results (

    job_id UNIQUEIDENTIFIER NOT NULL,

    last_run_date INT NOT NULL,

    last_run_time INT NOT NULL,

    next_run_date INT NOT NULL,

    next_run_time INT NOT NULL,

    next_run_schedule_id INT NOT NULL,

    requested_to_run INT NOT NULL,

    request_source INT NOT NULL,

    request_source_id sysname COLLATE database_default NULL,

    running INT NOT NULL,

    current_step INT NOT NULL,

    current_retry_attempt INT NOT NULL,

    job_state INT NOT NULL)

    SELECT @is_sysadmin = ISNULL(IS_SRVROLEMEMBER(N'sysadmin'), 0)

    SELECT @job_owner = SUSER_SNAME()

    INSERT INTO #xp_results

    EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs @is_sysadmin, @job_owner

    SELECT '**************',' SQL AGENT JOB REFERENCES ','****************'

    SELECT

    j.job_id

    , j.[name]

    , j.date_modified

    , j.version_number

    , jss.subsystem

    , jss.step_name

    , CASE jss.on_success_action

    WHEN 1 THEN 'Quit reporting success'

    WHEN 2 THEN 'Quit reporting error'

    WHEN 3 THEN 'Go to next step'

    WHEN 4 THEN 'Go to step ' + convert(char(1), jss.on_success_step_id)

    ELSE 'Unknown' END

    , jss.database_name

    , CASE j.enabled WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' else 'No' END as Enabled

    , CASE s.enabled WHEN 1 THEN 'Yes' else 'No' END as Scheduled

    , CASE s.freq_type

    WHEN 1 THEN 'Once'

    WHEN 4 THEN 'Daily'

    WHEN 8 THEN 'Weekly'

    WHEN 16 THEN 'Monthly'

    WHEN 32 THEN 'Monthly relative'

    WHEN 64 THEN 'When SQL Server Agent starts'

    WHEN 128 THEN 'Start whenever the CPU(s) become idle' END as Occurs

    , CASE s.freq_type

    WHEN 1 THEN 'O'

    WHEN 4 THEN 'Every '

    + convert(varchar,s.freq_interval)

    + ' day(s)'

    WHEN 8 THEN 'Every '

    + convert(varchar,s.freq_recurrence_factor)

    + ' weeks(s) on '

    + CASE WHEN s.freq_interval & 1 = 1 THEN + 'Sunday, ' END

    + CASE WHEN s.freq_interval & 1 = 1 THEN + 'Monday, ' END

    + CASE WHEN s.freq_interval & 1 = 1 THEN + 'Tuesday, ' END

    + CASE WHEN s.freq_interval & 1 = 1 THEN + 'Wednesday, ' END

    + CASE WHEN s.freq_interval & 1 = 1 THEN + 'Thursday, ' END

    + CASE WHEN s.freq_interval & 1 = 1 THEN + 'Friday, ' END

    + CASE WHEN s.freq_interval & 1 = 1 THEN + 'Saturday, ' END

    --master.dbo.fn_freq_interval_desc(s.freq_interval)

    WHEN 16 THEN 'Day ' + convert(varchar,s.freq_interval)

    + ' of every '

    + convert(varchar,s.freq_recurrence_factor)

    + ' month(s)'

    WHEN 32 THEN 'The '

    + CASE s.freq_relative_interval

    WHEN 1 THEN 'First'

    WHEN 2 THEN 'Second'

    WHEN 4 THEN 'Third'

    WHEN 8 THEN 'Fourth'

    WHEN 16 THEN 'Last' END

    + CASE s.freq_interval

    WHEN 1 THEN ' Sunday'

    WHEN 2 THEN ' Monday'

    WHEN 3 THEN ' Tuesday'

    WHEN 4 THEN ' Wednesday'

    WHEN 5 THEN ' Thursday'

    WHEN 6 THEN ' Friday'

    WHEN 7 THEN ' Saturday'

    WHEN 8 THEN ' Day'

    WHEN 9 THEN ' Weekday'

    WHEN 10 THEN ' Weekend Day' END

    + ' of every '

    + convert(varchar,s.freq_recurrence_factor)

    + ' month(s)' END AS Occurs_detail

    , CASE s.freq_subday_type

    WHEN 1 THEN 'Occurs once at '

    --+ master.dbo.fn_Time2Str(s.active_start_time)

    + LEFT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),3,2) + ':' + RIGHT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),2)

    WHEN 2 THEN 'Occurs every '

    + convert(varchar,s.freq_subday_interval)

    + ' Seconds(s) Starting at '

    + LEFT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),3,2) + ':' + RIGHT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),2)

    + ' ending at '

    + LEFT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_time),6),2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_time),6),3,2) + ':' + RIGHT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_time),6),2)

    --+ master.dbo.fn_Time2Str(s.active_end_time)

    WHEN 4 THEN 'Occurs every '

    + convert(varchar,s.freq_subday_interval)

    + ' Minute(s) Starting at '

    + LEFT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),3,2) + ':' + RIGHT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),2)

    + ' ending at '

    + LEFT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_time),6),2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_time),6),3,2) + ':' + RIGHT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_time),6),2)

    WHEN 8 THEN 'Occurs every '

    + convert(varchar,s.freq_subday_interval)

    + ' Hour(s) Starting at '

    + LEFT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),3,2) + ':' + RIGHT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),2)

    + ' ending at '

    + LEFT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_time),6),2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_time),6),3,2) + ':' + RIGHT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_time),6),2)

    END as Frequency

    , CASE WHEN s.freq_type = 1 THEN 'On date: '

    --+ master.dbo.fn_Date2Str(s.active_start_date)

    + RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_date) + '00000000', 8),2) + '/' + SUBSTRING(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_date) + '00000000', 8),5,2) + '/' + LEFT(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_date) + '00000000', 8),4)

    + ' At time: '

    + LEFT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),3,2) + ':' + RIGHT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_time),6),2)

    WHEN s.freq_type < 64 THEN 'Start date: '

    + RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_date) + '00000000', 8),2) + '/' + SUBSTRING(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_date) + '00000000', 8),5,2) + '/' + LEFT(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_start_date) + '00000000', 8),4)

    + ' end date: '

    + RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_date) + '00000000', 8),2) + '/' + SUBSTRING(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_date) + '00000000', 8),5,2) + '/' + LEFT(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,s.active_end_date) + '00000000', 8),4) END as Duration

    , RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,xp.next_run_date) + '00000000', 8),2) + '/' + SUBSTRING(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,xp.next_run_date) + '00000000', 8),5,2) + '/' + LEFT(LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR,xp.next_run_date) + '00000000', 8),4) + ' '

    + LEFT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,xp.next_run_time),6),2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,xp.next_run_time),6),3,2) + ':' + RIGHT(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,xp.next_run_time),6),2) AS Next_Run_Date

    --+ master.dbo.fn_Time2Str(xp.next_run_time) AS Next_Run_Date

    FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs j (NOLOCK)

    LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobschedules js (NOLOCK) ON j.job_id = js.job_id

    LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps jss (NOLOCK) ON j.job_id = jss.job_id

    LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysschedules s (NOLOCK) ON js.schedule_id = s.schedule_id

    LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.syscategories c (NOLOCK) ON j.category_id = c.category_id

    LEFT OUTER JOIN #xp_results xp (NOLOCK) ON j.job_id = xp.job_id

    WHERE j.name like @like

    OR j.[description] like @like

    OR jss.database_name like @like

    OR jss.step_name like @like

    OR jss.command like @like

    ORDER BY j.name, jss.step_id

  • Notice you mentioned alternative methods. Just searching my scripts now. 😀

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