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DBA007
Posting Yak Master

145 Posts

Posted - 2010-02-10 : 11:13:04
Team,
My Transaction log have failed with error mess as follows
SQL Backup failed with exit code: 1010 SQL error code: 4214 [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 50000). The step failed.

Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2010-02-10 : 11:58:38
How come you have so many failures in your systems? If we get one or two a YEAR I get nervous ...
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james_wells
Yak Posting Veteran

55 Posts

Posted - 2010-02-10 : 13:32:51
SQL ERROR 4214 - NO CURRENT DATABASE BACKUP

Were you trying to backup the transaction log ??

Seems to suggest that there is no valid database backup and therefore will not let you backup the transaction log until a valid database backup has been performed.

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GilaMonster
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

4507 Posts

Posted - 2010-02-10 : 13:37:27
So either someone has switched the DB to simple recovery and back to full or has run an explicit TRUNCATE LOG command. Either way, the log backups will only start working after a full backup is taken

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Gail Shaw
SQL Server MVP
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