Re: Does LiteSpeed supports Partial Backups
Here's the modified reply: We support Partial backups via scripting. Simply add the @read_write_filegroups parameter to the backup statement. For example:execmaster..xp_backup_database @database='foo',...
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Differential backups will backup only the changes which took place after the the full backup. We are trying to avoid taking full backup of the entire database(2 TB) in which almost 90 percent of data...
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That's true. My point was that you could take that initial Full (since you'll need at least one backup of the read-only data for safe-keeping), then set a long Full Backup Internal (could even be 365...
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Re: Does LiteSpeed supports Partial Backups
Thanks David. I tried to test the partial backups on a test server and I was not able to do. The following are the steps which I did - I have a database with five filegroups and I made 3 of them as...
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The console is not partial backup aware. We are having discussions on what we may add to the next release. In the meantime, you'll need to restore from script on that database. For example: exec...
View ArticleCompression of read only files
We are using litespeed for backup and restore process. We are planning to convert some of the file groups to read only on a 2 TB database. Does the compression on read only works similarly or we can...
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I apologize for not answering this sooner. I had a closer look at the configuration processing and unfortunately what are trying to do is not supported. I tried editing the INI file directly because...
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Read-only filegroups would not make any difference when it comes to compression.However, if you're using partial backups or Fast Compression, the amount of data change will be far reduced since much of...
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Thanks for your reply David Googling HP Dataprotector and VDI API makes me suspect that it's using VDI API, so I guess Litespeed won't help me out here. Backing up to disk using Litespeed, and having...
View ArticleAutomated Restore using withmove
I new to litepseed, trying to get automated restore for restoring db from prod to uat. Is there any way we could use withmove feature so that i can relocate files or use exisiting file location for...
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Yes. Both the Automated Restore Wizard and the API support placing the Data and Log files in a different folder than the default. Please review the Automated Restore Wizard in the LiteSpeed console....
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Just installed LiteSpeed 7.1 on Active/Passive cluster, but Node 2 has error ..
I just setup an Active/Passive cluster using Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008, and the LiteSpeed install seemed to go as expected until it tried to push the MSI to the second Node and gave the...
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Hello Sam, Please run the Instance Configuration Wizard from the passive node, which the error indicates it can't configure, and the install should complete without any further errors. If this fails to...
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Thanks Ben, I ran the configuration wizard on the second node and it reran the installation on the first Active node then gave the Unable to configure error on Node 3. This node doesn't have SQL...
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"This node doesn't have SQL installed, so can I ignore this?" Yes, you can ignore this error in your case since the wizard is simply trying to install the "litespeed" DLLs into the SQL instance's...
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Re: Just installed LiteSpeed 7.1 on Active/Passive cluster, but Node 2 has...
Well this is odd, I installed a new SQL Cluster node (Passive) on the third node, then ran the configuraton wizard from the second node to see if it got picked up. Here's the result which is an error...
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Interesting, I'm not sure at what point this happened, but the cluster failed over to the third node after installing LiteSpeed. That was qutie unexpected since I didn't think installing litespeed...
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Hello Sam, First I would recommend opening a support case for these installation issues as they are a little beyond what can be dealt with, via the forums, in a timely manner....however I can answer...
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Thanks for th reply. I think the problem was probably due to me not having SQL Server installed on one of the cluster nodes when I installed LiteSpeed. I ended up installing SQL on the 3rd node as...
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