This problem is driving me NUTS!!
We take backups of all of our production databases to a network share, which are then backed up to tape nightly.
8pm Mon-Fri - Full backup, followed by log backup
7am-7pm Mon-Fri, at half-hour interval - Log backup
Our backups have been working in this manner since we migrated from SQL Server Standard 2000 to 2008, 3 years ago. Recently, the first log backup on Mondays have been failing. Not every time, but almost every time! The rest of the week, we've had no problems. I guess the issue may have something to do with the size of the log backup that's attempted after a weekend of no backups.
Now onto the issue I need a fix for...
All this week, every full backup on our biggest two databases have failed (Both backups < 1GB compressed). There's plenty of disk space on the source and destination servers. I'm guessing the issue is to do with the amount of time it takes to complete the backups of these databases, and/or the size of the backup files required to complete these backups. Changing the backup destination to local storage works fine (and very, very fast in comparison).
From the Job History, I can find a few hints as to what the problem could be...
Code: 0xC002F210 (Always this code, but a mix of the following descriptions...)
"The operating system returned the error '64(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 1815)' while attempting 'SetEndOfFile' on '\drserver\SQLBackups\Database.bak'. BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
"The operating system returned the error '64(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 1815)' while attempting 'FlushFileBuffers' on '\drserver\SQLBackups\Database.bak'. BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
Please help save my hair and sanity!!
