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patshaw
Posting Yak Master
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 Posted - 2008-05-30 : 12:57:11
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| Hi,I am in the process of migrating databases from a SQL Server 2000 server to a 2005 server.I have taken full backups and restored without recovery on the 2005 server. I now need to take transaction log backups and restore with recovery tonight to complete the operation. My question is this:Some of the transaction logs have grown very large. Is it safe practice to perform a backup tran with truncate only and then run dbcc shrinkfile to reduce the size before I back up? This would make the process much quicker.Thanks. |
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sodeep
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2008-05-30 : 15:47:41
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| If you do that, you are breaking log chain. |
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Backup and shrink Trans Logs??