SIMS on MSSQL 2005

[AlexB]

Since I migrated to 2005 (from full 2000) the database backup that used to take 6 minutes now takes 40.

Now as all the sims admins know any upgrade/patch carries out a backup before applying (whether you've done one manually or not) So every little patch now takes roughly 40 minutes and 3 seconds.

This is getting damned annoying with all the little patches that have been needed of late so I rang county support (We pay them for SIMS, I just don't want to know when it comes to SIMS) and the answer back from them. "Thats perfectly normal" grrr

Anyone else experiencing a huge increase in db backup since the forced move to 2005?

[DMcCoy]

yes, everyone

[PhilNeal]

I'm told you can place all patches into a single directory and do the backup once.

[Jawloms]

That will certainly work if you have all the patches already. Can you confirm what the situation is if you have three patches to install via SOLUS? I think it will do a backup for each one then.

Stuart

[enjay]

That will certainly work if you have all the patches already. Can you confirm what the situation is if you have three patches to install via SOLUS? I think it will do a backup for each one then.

Stuart

dbugrade.exe will perform a backup at the start, not sure about solus.

[Toby.Belfield]

SOLUS currently makes a backup for each package that it deploys (ie a separate backup for each patch/release). However - a future version will change this, so that SOLUS makes a single backup.

Regards,

Toby Belfield
Capita

[Sylv3r]

Yes, I can confirm that it takes 30 mins + for us now also.

[tech_guy]

Here also :-(

[Oops_my_bad]

takes about 15 minutes here along with the customary 100+ system log errors

[AlexB]

Ah well, at least it isn't me. Its just so damned annoying, but I guess I can say that about a lot of things.

Also, thanks for that update Toby.