backup to network drive

I'm trying to create a job to backup to a network drive. The following SQL does not execute successfully:
USE master
EXEC sp_addumpdevice 'disk', 'Thurs6', '\\servername\DATA\SQL\Backup\Thursday 6 PM.txt'
BACKUP LOG Mock8 TO Thurs6 WITH INIT
However, if I change the destination file to one located on the SQL server, it executes fine. I've also tried this using a mapped drive letter, and that doesn't work either. Any thoughts?
Backups are done under the account that sql server runs under and not the
account you are logged on as. So if SQL Server is not running under a domain
account with access to that share it can not see it.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"mike" <mike@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to create a job to backup to a network drive. The following SQL
does not execute successfully:
> USE master
> EXEC sp_addumpdevice 'disk', 'Thurs6',
'\\servername\DATA\SQL\Backup\Thursday 6 PM.txt'
> BACKUP LOG Mock8 TO Thurs6 WITH INIT
> However, if I change the destination file to one located on the SQL
server, it executes fine. I've also tried this using a mapped drive letter,
and that doesn't work either. Any thoughts?
|||It could be that the account used by SQL Server doesn't have permissions to
that share. Can you post the exact error messages?
Vyas, MVP (SQL Server)
http://vyaskn.tripod.com/
"mike" <mike@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:85586673-2350-4BC0-A64D-4B2664703C92@.microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to create a job to backup to a network drive. The following SQL
does not execute successfully:
> USE master
> EXEC sp_addumpdevice 'disk', 'Thurs6',
'\\servername\DATA\SQL\Backup\Thursday 6 PM.txt'
> BACKUP LOG Mock8 TO Thurs6 WITH INIT
> However, if I change the destination file to one located on the SQL
server, it executes fine. I've also tried this using a mapped drive letter,
and that doesn't work either. Any thoughts?
|||Hi,
To solve the issue you have start the SQL Server service using an Domain OS
user which got write access to the remote share.
So go to Control Panel -- Admin Tools -- Services -- MSSQL Server sercice--
Double click and select the "Log on" option.
There you give a Valid Domain OS user and password to start the service. Now
stop and start the MSSQL Serevr service.
Note: That domain user should have previlages in the remote share to write
the file as well as prev. to start the SQL server.
After this you try to execute the Backup database command in Query
Analyzer:-
USE master
go
EXEC sp_addumpdevice 'disk', 'Thurs6',
'\\servername\DATA\SQL\Backup\Thursday 6 PM.txt'
go
BACKUP LOG Mock8 TO Thurs6 WITH INIT
Thanks
Hari
MCDBA
"mike" <mike@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:85586673-2350-4BC0-A64D-4B2664703C92@.microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to create a job to backup to a network drive. The following SQL
does not execute successfully:
> USE master
> EXEC sp_addumpdevice 'disk', 'Thurs6',
'\\servername\DATA\SQL\Backup\Thursday 6 PM.txt'
> BACKUP LOG Mock8 TO Thurs6 WITH INIT
> However, if I change the destination file to one located on the SQL
server, it executes fine. I've also tried this using a mapped drive letter,
and that doesn't work either. Any thoughts?