Monday, March 19, 2012

Back up system DBs

I noticed the transaction logs for master and other system dbs can't be back
ed up. What are some of the practices of backing up System DBs as far as me
thod, frequency and what type of situation would there be a need to restore
from them?
ThanksYou cannot backup logs for the syetm dbs because they are in simple =
recovery model.
Daily full backup should easily suffice unless you are in the habit of =
creating many databases or logins per day.
Mike John
"Niles" <Niles@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message =
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> I noticed the transaction logs for master and other system dbs can't =
be backed up. What are some of the practices of backing up System DBs =
as far as method, frequency and what type of situation would there be a =
need to restore from them?
> Thanks|||Hi,
Backup the system databases once a day. I recommend you to take a backup of
Master database inbetween
if you add a new database/new login/ adding roles / changing
configurations/....
Take the backup of MSDB inbetween if you add or modify a Job, add
operator/alert, replications , Logshipping...
Thanks
Hari
MCDBA
"Niles" <Niles@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I noticed the transaction logs for master and other system dbs can't be
backed up. What are some of the practices of backing up System DBs as far
as method, frequency and what type of situation would there be a need to
restore from them?
> Thanks|||I prefer to do only db backup for master and model. For msdb, I also do log
backup (because of
backup history is stored there). As Agent set msdb to simple recovery at sta
rtup, I just have a job
scheduled to autostart that set msdb to full recovery.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
"Niles" <Niles@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I noticed the transaction logs for master and other system dbs can't be backed up.
What are some
of the practices of backing up System DBs as far as method, frequency and wh
at type of situation
would there be a need to restore from them?
> Thanks

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