Because with the proper fail-safes in place, you’ll always be able to backup and restore your WordPress core files and do a full cPanel database backup in case anything goes south.Regardless of anything bad that happens to your website, an automatic backup WordPress plugin can save the day. Hackers, a slip of the finger, a bad plugin…all of those things can break or erase your site just like that.īut losing your site doesn’t have to be something that keeps you up at night. Set = + + '-' + replace(convert(varchar, getdate(), 110), '-', '.') + '.Unfortunately, the Internet can get crazy sometimes. Create the backup file name based on the restore directory, the database name and today's date Set = 'C:\backup-test\' - such as 'c:\temp\' IMPORTENT:: Make sure theer is a \ character at the end of your directory path below, else Set the path to the directory containing the database backup file.
Set the name of the database to restore ALTER DATABASE yourdatabasename SET MULTI_USERĭeclare varchar(100), varchar(100), varchar(100), varchar(100), nvarchar(1000) the below command on it and it will restore the Multiuser mode: NOTE: If the database gets locked in Single user mode, execute For this step I was trying to restore from a backup file that I have on a local folder so, no permissions is needed. ) both said the task completed successfully but, nothing is really restored. I've tried Muqadder's script which I will post below, and a simple RESTORE script like this( RESTORE DATABASEĭISK = 'Z:\SQLServerBackups\AdventureWorks2012.bak' My Wiki User Page My MSDN Page My Personal Blog My Facebook Page Please Vote This As Helpful if it helps to solve your issue Please Mark This As Answer if it solved your issue Permissions to access backup file and do restore operation, then you will face issues like these. I'm honestly not sure if my steps are correct to achieve what I'm looking for.Ĭan you post the sql query you used in Task 3? Also does the executing account have access to the path where backup file is stored? By default when you execute from job, the package gets executed using SQL Agent service account so if it doesn't have required working but the nothing really restored when I go to sql server and refresh the database nothing is there. WORKINGģ-SQL task to restore the database. WORKINGĢ-FTP task to get the file from the production server to the testing server. I created an SSIS package with these tasks:ġ-back-up database task to back up production database. My goal is to restore production data to a test environment on a daily basis for better troubleshooting. Thanks for your help posting this useful thread but, I'm running into some issues while executing the task. P.S: Since this is such a frequently asked feature, I might create a SSIS solution that is ready to use when I get time.
#EASY BACKUP AND RESTORE HOW TO#
Plenty of content on how to use these two in conjunction, just a google search away :). Again, SSIS variables andĮxpressions will be the way to go. You can wrap up the RestoreDB SSIS flow into a foreach loop container that queries a (lets say) "TargetInstances" table and dynamically switches the "Data Source" connection manager property to each target instance one at a time.
#EASY BACKUP AND RESTORE MANUAL#
If you've hundreds of instances to deploy to and find the manual approach cumbersome, In order to deploy the backedup database to a multiple instances, you can repeat Step1 above multiple times by changing the target instance connection manager as many times.
Otherwise, if you have set-up a SQL Agent job to execute the SSIS package, you can edit teh same by double clicking the RestoreDB job step and navigating to "Connection Managers" tab.Ģ. Note: If you'r using a version of SSIS prior to 2012 and have SSIS configurations enabled for the RestoreDB package, you can change the Data Source property in the config file itself. SQL task uses) to the desired instance and run the package. Simply edit the "Data Source" property of the target connection manager (the one which the RestoreDB Execute In order to deploy the backedup database to a different instance, I'd assume that you have deployed the Restore-DB SSIS package to a server already. I'll try and address this so that someone looking for a similar approach findsġ. I apologize as I'm returning to this thread after a very long time! I see there have been requests to know how to deploy a backed-up databases to a different/multiple instance(s).