Sql always on Admin can no longer see incremental backup in SQL management studio, only see full backups
Are there any special settings?
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Sql always on Admin not see incremental backup
+5Best answer by Mohamed Ramadan
Ponte_Vedra wrote:
I don’t believe you can do an ‘incremental’ backup of SQL. You can do a Full, Differential and Translog.
From: Backups of SQL Always On Availability Group Instances
You back up Always On availability group instances the same way that you back up other SQL subclients.
For information about backups of SQL subclients, see SQL Backup Operations.
When you start the backup, the master process retrieves the backup information from the availability group. All activities of the master process are logged in the SQLBackupmaster.log file.
Backup jobs run on the primary or secondary replica as follows:
-
Full and differential backups: These backups always run on the primary replica. Copy-only full backups run on a secondary replica.
-
Transaction log backups: If the primary replica is set as the preferred replica for running backups, then transaction log backups run on the primary replica. Otherwise, the transaction log backups run on the secondary replica that has the highest backup priority.
hello
Yes, some DBAs refer to differential backups as incremental backups.
this tool could be really helpful for you
You can find more details here:
https://documentation.commvault.com/11.20/available_operations_for_cvsqlbackuputility_tool.html
Best Regards,
Mohamed Ramadan
Data Protection Specialist
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+11hello
are you currently using the Commvault plugin for SQL Management Studio?
Best Regards,
Mohamed Ramadan
Data Protection Specialist
+11hello
Thanks for the update!
Could you try using a tool like dbatools with the following command?
Get-DBALastBackup -SQLinstance Instance
Also, could you please share the SQL queries you've used?
Best Regards,
Mohamed Ramadan
Data Protection Specialist
+5I don’t believe you can do an ‘incremental’ backup of SQL. You can do a Full, Differential and Translog.
From: Backups of SQL Always On Availability Group Instances
You back up Always On availability group instances the same way that you back up other SQL subclients.
For information about backups of SQL subclients, see SQL Backup Operations.
When you start the backup, the master process retrieves the backup information from the availability group. All activities of the master process are logged in the SQLBackupmaster.log file.
Backup jobs run on the primary or secondary replica as follows:
-
Full and differential backups: These backups always run on the primary replica. Copy-only full backups run on a secondary replica.
-
Transaction log backups: If the primary replica is set as the preferred replica for running backups, then transaction log backups run on the primary replica. Otherwise, the transaction log backups run on the secondary replica that has the highest backup priority.
+11Ponte_Vedra wrote:
I don’t believe you can do an ‘incremental’ backup of SQL. You can do a Full, Differential and Translog.
From: Backups of SQL Always On Availability Group Instances
You back up Always On availability group instances the same way that you back up other SQL subclients.
For information about backups of SQL subclients, see SQL Backup Operations.
When you start the backup, the master process retrieves the backup information from the availability group. All activities of the master process are logged in the SQLBackupmaster.log file.
Backup jobs run on the primary or secondary replica as follows:
-
Full and differential backups: These backups always run on the primary replica. Copy-only full backups run on a secondary replica.
-
Transaction log backups: If the primary replica is set as the preferred replica for running backups, then transaction log backups run on the primary replica. Otherwise, the transaction log backups run on the secondary replica that has the highest backup priority.
hello
Yes, some DBAs refer to differential backups as incremental backups.
this tool could be really helpful for you
You can find more details here:
https://documentation.commvault.com/11.20/available_operations_for_cvsqlbackuputility_tool.html
Best Regards,
Mohamed Ramadan
Data Protection Specialist
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