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SQL transaction log

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I recently enabled "Backup logs periodically" every 60 minutes on my MS SQL 2008 server. Viewing the SQL statistics in Veeam I see that "Uploading transaction logs backup to shipping server" failes after almost 4 hours. Error Message is "Transaction log backup took longer than desired log backup interval", followed by "Cannot run program [C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Local\Temp\{1d653095-e176-433a-8043-ca6fab1b2187}]. VIX Error: The virtual machine needs to be powered on Code: 3006"
The backup interval cannot be set longer than 60 minutes, so what do I do?
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Re: SQL Periodic Log Backup with 200+ databases

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Stig, how many databases does the affected SQL server hold?
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Re: SQL Periodic Log Backup with 200+ databases

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The affected SQL server holds 7 databases. I have set 6 of them as "simple recovery model" to exclude them from transaction log backup. I only need transaction log backup every 60 minutes for the remaining database. The database file is 190GB and the logfile is 17B.
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Re: SQL Periodic Log Backup with 200+ databases

Post by Gostev » 1 person likes this post

I would investigate this issue with support, as everything points out at some environmental issue in your case. Also, don't see how the issue of log backup from a single fairly small database is relevant to performance problems of backing up 200 databases - someone from moderators has made a wrong call with the topic merge here ;)
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Re: SQL Periodic Log Backup with 200+ databases

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It was not clear that the server is fairly small at the time the merge occurred. ;) The error looked similar, so I merged the post. Splitting it back then...
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Solution: Support asked me to change log shipping server from the backupserver to a server in the same subnet as the SQL-server. Now the backupjob runs in a couple of minutes.
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Thanks for getting back with the resolution, much appreciated.
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