large transaction log backups

  • Hi All.

    From last 4-5 days we are seeing log backup file sizes increased from 500 MB's to 100GB files.

    What does it indicate and what should we checking at? the queries which are running during those times? This is not just happening during weekends (index rebuilds ..) but during weekdays also its the same behavior.

    We take log backups every 30 mins.

     

    Regards,

    Sam

     

  • Talk with your db's consumers if they changed usage / implement new stuff / have faulty processes recently / ...

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  • Is someone doing any form of Index Maintenance?  It may not be in a separate job somewhere.... it may be something that someone has added to a stored procedure because they thought it might be a good idea.

    Another thing is that someone may have added an index that splits like crazy during inserts and updates.

    The easy way to find it would be to go over to Brent Ozar's site and find the article that Erik Darling wrote about how to use Extended Events to monitor for log file growth.  It will, of course, require you to shrink the log file a bit but I've implemented it at work and it does fine.

    I don't have the link handy but, from the info I provided above, it shouldn't be difficult for you to find.

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