Re: Full Backup Not Found

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Hello Dan,

Take a look at the following KB:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921106

And you can query msdb.backupfile to track your file backups.

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Ekrem Önsoy



"Dan" <dantheriver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23JAhwC25IHA.192@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have set up an agent job to do a full backup in the morning and a diff later in the day. If I run the full backup and the diff immediately afterwards it works fine. When I run the full backup and then wait several hours to run the diff, then I get this error:



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Msg 3035, Level 16, State 1, Line 1

Cannot perform a differential backup for database "DW", because a current database backup does not exist. Perform a full database backup by reissuing BACKUP DATABASE, omitting the WITH DIFFERENTIAL option.
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The full database backup file is still in the original location, and is showing up in the SSMS when I open the restore db dialog for the database.

What would cause the diff backup to not be able to see the full backup?

Is there a TSQL command to list all the backups that have been taken for a given database?



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