Recent content by schubb2003

Be sure that all of your DB's are actually backing up. You can have a DB that does not backup at all. I have had a situation where 11 DB's were being backed up, 10 actually reported status 0, and no report at all for 1. The overall job was status 1, and it turned out that someone had changed...

Hi, I have a restore that should be approximately 600MB(according to the restore manager). However the restore just keeps running forever and the size continually increases. This file at most is 1.5GB(File size cap), last night I killed the backup at 65GB. Now for the complication, the...

Got it. All that is needed is to add POLICY policyname to the bch file. Too bad the SQL API documentation can't spell that out.

Hi, Our DBA is out and I need to change a bch file to use a specific policy. Is there an option for setting the policy in the bch file? We don't have access to the DB, but we have to set up the backup. He has logged in as an SQL admin to the agent, but I am getting random 239's. However...

If your work machine is in a domain it is very likely the domain admins have this locked down. You should speak with your companies IT and see if do indeed do this. We do not allow our users access to it for security reasons.

If you are using a domain the PDC(FSMO role holder) will be a time server and if the time zone is set wrong the time will adjust to the server time -/+ the offset. I had this issue with an image that had PST time zone set and we are in Massachusetts, so the clock would reset to 3 hours behind...

Actually this is not a Dell issue...The company that makes their mobo's as well as Abit and others use a company for their caps. This company was producing bad caps, messing with things they appearantly did not understand. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24596