Re: Backup Failed

From: Keith Kratochvil (sqlguy.back2u_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/24/05


Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:08:23 -0600

Are you backing up the file to tape? Could that process be running while
you are trying to backup the database to disk?

-- 
Keith
"MS User" <sqlman@sql.com> wrote in message
news:%23q5TNsiAFHA.3860@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> SQL 2K
>
> We are having an issue with our data warehouse database failing on backup
> with
>
>
> 2005-01-23 09:53:25.64 spid55    BackupMedium::ReportIoError: write
failure
> on backup device
> 'D:\SqlData\MSSQL$WAREHOUSE1\BACKUP\My_db_200501230900.BAK'. Operating
> system error 33(The process cannot access the file because another process
> has locked a portion of the file.).
> 2005-01-23 09:53:25.67 spid55    Internal I/O request 0x3D80DAE8: Op:
Write,
> pBuffer: 0x153C0000, Size: 983040, Position: 47255394816, UMS: Internal:
> 0x103, InternalHigh: 0x0, Offset: 0xA41A00, OffsetHigh: 0xB, m_buf:
> 0x153C0000, m_len: 983040, m_actualBytes: 0, m_errcode: 33, BackupFile:
> D:\SqlData\MSSQL$WAREHOUSE1\BACKUP\My_db_200501230900.BAK
> 2005-01-23 09:53:25.69 backup    BACKUP failed to complete the command
> BACKUP DATABASE [INFO_PROD] TO  DISK =
> N'D:\SqlData\MSSQL$WAREHOUSE1\BACKUP\My_db_200501230900.BAK' WITH  INIT ,
> NOUNLOAD ,  NOSKIP ,  STATS = 10,  NOFORMAT
>
>
> Last week we had the same issue and rebooting the server did helped.
>
> Any thoughts on this lock on the backup file.
>
> Thanks
> Robert
>
>


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