Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for SQL Server
- Installation and host configuration
- Host configuration and job settings
- Managing SQL Server objects for use with SQL Server Intelligent Policies
- About discovery of SQL Server objects
- About registering SQL Server instances and availability replicas
- Registering instances or availability replicas with an instance group
- Configuring backups with SQL Server Intelligent Policy
- About tuning parameters for SQL Server backups
- Performing restores of SQL Server
- Redirecting a SQL Server database to a different host
- Protecting SQL Server data with VMware backups
- About protecting an application database with VMware backups
- Configuring backups with Snapshot Client
- Using copy-only snapshot backups to affect how differentials are based
- About SQL Server agent grouped backups (legacy SQL Server policies)
- Protecting SQL Server availability groups
- Protecting SQL Server availability groups with intelligent policies
- Protecting SQL Server availibility groups with legacy policies
- About protecting the preferred replica in a SQL Server availability group (legacy backup policies)
- About protecting a specific node in a SQL Server availability group (legacy backup policies)
- About protecting the preferred replica in a SQL Server availability group (legacy backup policies)
- Protecting SQL Server in a cluster environment
- Configuring backups with legacy SQL Server policies using clients and batch files
- About using batch files with NetBackup for SQL Server
- About schedule properties
- Performing user-directed backups of SQL Server databases
- Performing user-directed backups of read-only filegroups
- Using NetBackup for SQL Server with multiple NICs
- Performance and troubleshooting
- About debug logging for SQL Server troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery of SQL Server
- Appendix A. Other configurations
- About SQL Server backups and restores in an SAP environment
- Appendix B. Register authorized locations
SQL Server log truncation failure during VMware backups of SQL Server
SQL Server transaction log truncation may fail during VMware backups of SQL Server if a database name contains special characters or if the %TEMP% directory path is too long. During SQL Server log truncation, the NetBackup for SQL Server agent creates a temporary log backup. This backup specifies the current user's configured %TEMP% directory and database name as part of the destination backup device. SQL Server limits the path that can be used for backup devices to 259 characters. Under certain circumstances the SQL Server agent may generate a backup device that is longer than 259 character and cause log truncation to fail.
The following conditions cause failure:
A configured %TEMP% directory that is longer than 259 characters.
When the combined length of the database name and %TEMP% directory path is longer than 259 characters.
One workaround for this issue is to configure the %TEMP% directory so that the path is substantially less than 259 characters long.