Comments on: SQL Server Compressed Backup v1.2 Released

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:58:11 +0000

Royner,
I’d suspect that it wouldn’t work. I’m pretty sure that it’s compiled against the 8.0 (SQL 2000) version of the DLL.
Clay

By: Royner Suarez

Royner Suarez — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:57:21 +0000

Thanks for your response Clay.
The problem was related to the INSTANCENAME paramater that must have passed to the SQL server if you are using SQL instances on it.
Now It works fine…..
Is this software able to backup SQL server 7.0 datatabases ?

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:26:11 +0000

Royner,
That probably applies to your situtation too (running the tool with admin privledges).

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:24:42 +0000

Kevin,

A “CreateEx” error on Win2008+ is likely due to not having admin privledges. You’ll need to start a command prompt with “run as administrator” to run the tool.

Next on the list is to change the app to automatically upgrade to administrative privledges automatically.

By: Kevin Batman

Kevin Batman — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:12:42 +0000

Hello Clay,

I am currently using MSSQLCompressedBackup via a script on a server running Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) and want to use it also on another server running Windows Server 2008R2 (64-bit). I am getting the following error which seems to be the same error that Royner Suarez was getting:
C:\MSSQLCompressedBackup-1.2-20100527_x64>msbp backup [model] gzip file:///c:\scripts\model.bak.gz
local:
path=c:\scripts\model.bak.gz
gzip: level = 9
————————
Exception #1
VDS::Create failed: x80070005

System.InvalidProgramException
at MSBackupPipe.VirtualBackupDevice.VirtualDeviceSet.CreateEx(String instance
Name, String deviceSetName, VirtualDeviceSetConfig config) in c:\documents and s
ettings\clay lenhart\my documents\mssqlcompressed\msbackuppipe.virtualbackupdevi
ce\virtualdeviceset.cpp:line 96
at MSBackupPipe.Common.BackupPipeSystem.BackupOrRestore(Boolean isBackup, Con
figPair storageConfig, ConfigPair databaseConfig, List`1 pipelineConfig, IUpdate
Notification updateNotifier) in C:\Documents and Settings\Clay Lenhart\My Docume
nts\mssqlcompressed\MSBackupPipe.Common\BackupPipeSystem.cs:line 105

The backup failed.
Below are the commands for msbp.exe:
msbp.exe help
msbp.exe backup
msbp.exe restore
msbp.exe listplugins
msbp.exe helpplugin
msbp.exe version

For more information, type msbp.exe help

I am running the 64-bit version of the software. Any ideas? The path to the sqlvdi.dll is what you say it is on your machine, so I don’t believe that is the problem.

Thanks.

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:58:14 +0000

Royner,
It can’t find the VDI dll, which on my machine is located here:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\COM\sqlvdi.dll
The path varies from installation to installation, but it’ll be in a similar place (….80\COM\sqlvdi.dll).

I see this occur when people try to backup a database remotely, which isn’t possible with this tool.

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:45:00 +0000

Saud, Great to hear! Thanks for the update.

By: Clay Lenhart

Clay Lenhart — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:15:15 +0000

Mirco, I haven’t tried it this way, but makes sense! Thanks for the tip.

By: Royner Suarez

Royner Suarez — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:59:45 +0000

Hello
I want tou use this great software to compress my SQL backups, but when I try to run in our server which have an instance name, the process raise an error:

C:\backups>msbp.exe backup “db(database=model)” “zip64(level=3)” “local(path=c:\
model.bak.zip)”
local:
path=c:\model.bak.zip
zip64: level = 3, filename=database.bak
————————
Exception #1
VDS::Create failed: x80770007

System.InvalidProgramException
at VdiNet.VirtualBackupDevice.Native.VirtualDeviceSet.CreateEx(String instanc
eName, String deviceSetName, VirtualDeviceSetConfig config) in c:\users\clay\doc
uments\vdi.net\vdinet.virtualbackupdevice.native\virtualdeviceset.cpp:line 98
at VdiNet.VirtualBackupDevice.Exe32Sql32.VirtualDeviceSetExe32Sql32.CreateEx(
String instanceName, String deviceSetName, VirtualDeviceSetConfig config) in C:\
Users\Clay\Documents\vdi.net\VdiNet.VirtualBackupDevice\Exe32Sql32\VirtualDevice
SetExe32Sql32.cs:line 23
at MSBackupPipe.Common.BackupPipeSystem.BackupOrRestore(Boolean isBackup, Con
figPair storageConfig, ConfigPair databaseConfig, List`1 pipelineConfig, IUpdate
Notification updateNotifier) in C:\Users\Clay\Documents\MSSQL Compressed\mssql s
ourceforge2\MSBackupPipe.Common\BackupPipeSystem.cs:line 108

The backup failed.

What can be happening ?
Thanks

By: Saud Ahmed

Saud Ahmed — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:49:58 +0000

Clay,

It worked !! I used the new version and the backup ran successfully on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I checked the logs and everything is golden. I’ll keep monitoring it over the next two weeks and see if it fails once again (hopefully not).

Thanks a lot once again ! I really appreciate your help.