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vaddi
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145 Posts

Posted - 2007-04-27 : 11:29:57
Hello,

Yestarday night we had a log backup failure at 3.00 AM on a sql server 2000. After that the hourly log backup's went on smoothly.

When I checked the sql server logs , it showed me the error:

Backup Disk File:Create Media:Backup Device 'D:\mssql\backup\vmware\vmware_log' failed
Operating system error=32 ( The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process)

I tried to google it , but could not get a good answer.

Can anybody help me out what the error means.

rmiao
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

7266 Posts

Posted - 2007-04-27 : 12:52:07
Do you run file backup on the server? Most likely locked by file backup process.
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vaddi
Posting Yak Master

145 Posts

Posted - 2007-04-27 : 12:59:34
Yes , I take the backup on the server. what does file backup lock mean. I will try to search in the mean time

Thanks
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rmiao
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

7266 Posts

Posted - 2007-04-27 : 13:07:37
When backup program backups a file, it'll put lock on the file to prevent other processes to access the file.
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vaddi
Posting Yak Master

145 Posts

Posted - 2007-04-27 : 13:14:07
Thanks for the explination.
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