May 19, 2010 at 4:47 am
We have some strange backups that are occuring hourly on one of our servers. It does not backup all databases on the server just a small set of them. The command it's running is:
BACKUP DATABASE [XXXXXXX] TO VIRTUAL_DEVICE='{F4A995D9-A4A7-4A2D-A594-227591A5EA55}1' WITH SNAPSHOT,BUFFERCOUNT=1,BLOCKSIZE=1024
We've checked and there are no scheduled job, VSS is not running on the box, and there are no legacy maintenace plans. We've also checked the linked servers in case they were instructing anything.
Any help appreciated in tracking down what could be causing it to run!
Cheers,
Neil
May 19, 2010 at 6:25 am
the 'virtual device' gives it away, thats is definitely a third party enterprise backup tool such as veritas backing up the database. Talk to your sysadmins or network admins.
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May 19, 2010 at 9:35 am
Or, it is a SAN snapshot technology that is performing a snapshot backup.
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May 19, 2010 at 2:07 pm
I see this all the time in our VMWare environment when snapshots are running. Probably not what is happening here, but I thought I'd add to the discussion.
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