When you do your full backup you might need to do a log file backup with the truncate option. This will remove all of the records that are no longer needed.
______________________________________________________ Bill Grover Supervisor IS Department Phone: 301.424.3300 x396 EU Services, Inc. FAX: 301.424.3300 x1396# 649 North Horners Lane E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD 20850-1299 WWW: www.euservices.com ______________________________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: Kelly Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:24 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: SQL Transaction Logs...? > > > supposedly they do a full back up every night. I am using a shared > SQL server so we don't have permissions to create our own maintenance > schedule. I will still pass this on though thanks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:08 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: SQL Transaction Logs...? > > > On 12/12/01, Kelly Matthews penned: > >Has anyone ever had a SQL 7 or 2000 database that wasn't that large. > >Have one that's about 9 megs. Where the transaction log was HUGE? My > >transaction log is 231 megs right now and rapidly growing. > There is not > >that much update, insert, delete activity against the > database so I am > >confused as to why this is happening. I run a ton of other > databases > >where the transaction log is not so much larger then the database. > >Thoughts? > > Alot depend on how you have your maintenance scheduling set up. If > you have a single transaction log that keeps growing, then it sounds > as though you DON'T have a maintenance schedule. That's not using one > of SQL Server's most desirable functions. :) > > I set mine up to do a full backup weekly and a transaction log backup > every 12 hours. Every time the transaction log is backed up, all of > those transactions are deleted from the log (auto-shrink). > > Then I backup to tape daily. If I have a failure, I can restore the > most recent full backup, then all the transaction log backups after > that. The most I'd lose is less than 12 hours worth of data and disk > usage is kept to a minimum. > > One question I have for you SQL experts though. I have the full > backup and transaction backups set to be deleted automatically every > 8 days. The full backup files are deleted fine, but I have to delete > the old transaction log backups manually. Any idea as to why? > -- > > Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.twcreations.com/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
