I got this error message on my SharePoint farm backup (using the STSADM commandSTSADM.EXE -o backup -directory \srv001sqlbackups -backupmethod full): Object SharePoint_Config failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. SqlException: Write on “\srv003SP_Backupspbr0001000001D.bak” failed: 121(The semaphore timeout period has expired.) BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. My …
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This week I had to do a restore of a site collection using only SQL database backup. The customers hosting partner had not setup a SharePoint farm backup and had no test environment available that we could restore the database to, so they restored the database back to the SQL server into the production environment.When …
I think I have blogged about this before, but I cannot enough emphasize the importance of running SharePoints own backup together with your SQL database backup. Of course, some third party backup products might be able to restore in the same way as you can restore a site collection backup inside Central Admin, but it …
Yey! If you want to save the server administrator (speaking!) some hell by deleting old backup folders and save disk space, then this is a solution for you! Create a new file with Notepad and name it like deletebackupfiles.vbs and paste the following code (I cannot write the code here of course, but you can …
We had some trouble running the full backup (both from CA and stsadm), we got error messages in CA that said “Error: Object SharePoint_Config failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. SqlException: Cannot open backup device…” and in EventViewer it complained that we used a Bad …
Got this error in the Backup history: Object SSO failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. SqlException: Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database ‘SSO’. No entry found with that name. Make sure that the name is entered correctly. BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. Found …
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