How to setup DB Backup to network device for Active-Active SQL Cluster

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How to setup DB Backup to network device for Active-Active SQL Cluster

Subha Sriram

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November 19, 2004 at 1:24 am

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We are in the process of configuring an active-active sql cluster in Windows Server 2003. SQL Enterprise Manager can see the R: and S: drives which are the sql data and log drives. Is it possible to do a disk backup the DB into a network drive. We have tried specifying \\servername\path but that does not seem to work. We also tried map the network drive to M: but SQL can still not see it. We looked at the options for adding a resource drive in the cluster adm but it does not have an option to add a network drive as a resource.
The other option is for us to do dump the DB backup to the data drive and then transfer the file over to the network drive which seems to work. I am trying to reduce it to a 1 step process and also reduce the I/O on the data drive especially for transaction log dumps.
Your recommendation and timely response is greatly appreciated

Subha

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135369 More actions · Answer 1

SQL2005 ? or wrong forumgroup ?

SQL2000 : make sure your sqlserver / sqlagent serviceaccout has got the needed authority for your network-shares.

This job works fine overhere :

BEGIN TRANSACTION

DECLARE @JobID BINARY(16)

DECLARE @ReturnCode INT

SELECT @ReturnCode = 0

IF (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM msdb.dbo.syscategories WHERE name = N'[Uncategorized (Local)]') < 1

EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sp_add_category @name = N'[Uncategorized (Local)]'

IF (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs WHERE name = N'backup model UNC') > 0

PRINT N'The job "backup model UNC" already exists so will not be replaced.'

ELSE

BEGIN

-- Add the job

EXECUTE @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_job @job_id = @JobID OUTPUT , @job_name = N'backup model UNC', @owner_login_name = N'sa', @description = N'No description available.', @category_name = N'[Uncategorized (Local)]', @enabled = 1, @notify_level_email = 0, @notify_level_page = 0, @notify_level_netsend = 0, @notify_level_eventlog = 2, @delete_level= 0

IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

-- Add the job steps

EXECUTE @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobstep @job_id = @JobID, @step_id = 1, @step_name = N'Backup Model unc', @command = N'BACKUP DATABASE [model] TO disk=''\\myBUserver\backups\myDBserver\Database\modelFull.bak'' WITH INIT ,

NOUNLOAD , NAME = ''model_Full'',

SKIP , STATS = 10, DESCRIPTION = ''Full Database Backup'' , NOFORMAT', @database_name = N'master', @server = N'', @database_user_name = N'', @subsystem = N'TSQL', @cmdexec_success_code = 0, @flags = 0, @retry_attempts = 0, @retry_interval = 1, @output_file_name = N'', @on_success_step_id = 0, @on_success_action = 1, @on_fail_step_id = 0, @on_fail_action = 2

IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

EXECUTE @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_update_job @job_id = @JobID, @start_step_id = 1

IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

-- Add the Target Servers

EXECUTE @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobserver @job_id = @JobID, @server_name = N'(local)'

IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

END

COMMIT TRANSACTION

GOTO EndSave

QuitWithRollback:

IF (@@TRANCOUNT > 0) ROLLBACK TRANSACTION

EndSave:

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