Posts Tagged ‘batch file’

How To Backup A SQL Express Database With A Scheduled Task, And Cleanup Old Backups

So you are running SQL Server (2005 or 2008) Express (presumably installed as part of an application server install) and you would like to make sure your databases are backing up each night. You go to load the SQL Server Management Studio only to discover it’s not there. So then you head on over to…
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Batch File: Append Ping Failures And Time Stamp To A Text File

So I’m trying to troubleshoot a problem where backups of a Windows 2008 server over a 1.5Mbps Wide Area Network (WAN) connection keep failing. Occasionally it will work, but most nights it will fail after running for several hours. We have a number of in-house network troubleshooting tools and I also know there are endless…
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