Permission issue or query issue

• saidapurs

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  September 11, 2012 at 12:03 am

  #267587

  Hi friends,

  I have small doubt in below query. This query is use for zip the file and when i use thought command prompt its working 100% but when i use that query in SQL analyze getting error. some one advice me issue with security. Will pls advice me how i get output of below query..

  DECLARE @MyFileName varchar(50), @COMMAND VARCHAR(100)

  SELECT @MyFileName = (SELECT 'C:\DBBACKUP\Weekly_Full_Backup\store\' + convert(varchar(50),GetDate(),112) + '.bak')

  -- BACKUP

  BACKUP DATABASE store TO DISK = @MyFileName

  -- COMPAC ZIP

  SET @COMMAND = 'C:\7-Zip\7z.exe A ' + @MyFileName + '.ZIP ' + @MyFileName

  EXEC XP_CMDSHELL @COMMAND

  Errors are:-

  1. C:\DBBACKUP\Weekly_Full_Back: WARNING: The system cannot find

  the file specified.

  2. Creating archive C:\DBBACKUP\Weekly_Full_Backup\store

  \20120910.bak.ZIP

  3. WARNINGS for files

  4. C:\DBBACKUP\Weekly_Full_Back : The system cannot find the file

  specified.

  5. WARNING: Cannot find 1 file

  NOTE :- Destination path is correct ..

  Thanks in advance...

  Satish

• saidapurs

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  September 11, 2012 at 12:19 am

  #1536014

  Hi Friends,

  I am getting output of above query when i change the path like

  DECLARE @MyFileName varchar(50), @COMMAND VARCHAR(100)

  SELECT @MyFileName = (SELECT 'C:\DBBACKUP\Full\Store\' + convert(varchar(50),GetDate(),112) + '.bak')

  -- BACKUP

  BACKUP DATABASE store TO DISK = @MyFileName

  -- COMPAC ZIP

  SET @COMMAND = 'C:\7-Zip\7z.exe A ' + @MyFileName + '.ZIP ' + @MyFileName

  EXEC XP_CMDSHELL @COMMAND

  in last query path was long now i reduce the path. Please advice me if i want to use longer path what shall i change...

  Thanks

  Satish

• Sean Pearce

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  September 11, 2012 at 2:42 am

  #1536049

  Increase the size of your variables to use a longer path

  DECLARE @MyFileName varchar(255), @COMMAND VARCHAR(255)

  

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• saidapurs

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  September 11, 2012 at 6:24 am

  #1536188

  Thanks Arto,

  I change it into NVARCHAR(1000), then its working..

  Thanks

  Satish