{"id":1140,"date":"2007-10-30T19:26:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Fed-up-with-BACKUP-success-messages-bloating-your-error-logs.aspx"},"modified":"2018-04-18T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:37:48","slug":"fed-up-with-backup-success-messages-bloating-your-error-logs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/fed-up-with-backup-success-messages-bloating-your-error-logs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed up with BACKUP success messages bloating your error logs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a well known problem that every time a backup operation succeeds a message is written into the error log and Windows event log. If you’re taking very frequent log backups (say every 5 minutes) of multiple databases, that’s a significant amount of clutter in the logs. Well – now there’s a fix!<\/p>\n

Kevin Farlee, the Storage Engine PM responsible for (among many other things) BACKUP<\/em> and RESTORE<\/em> has just blogged<\/a> about a trace flag\u00a0– 3226 – that’s been in the product since SQL Server 2000\u00a0and he’s planning to document this (and other) trace flags in this area starting in SQL Server 2008.<\/p>\n

The trace flag stops successful backups from printing messages, so you only see messages when a backup fails. Backups always print failure messages when they fail, so this trace flag is safe to enable.<\/p>\n

You can enable\u00a0it using DBCC TRACEON (3226,<\/em> -1),\u00a0<\/em>where\u00a0the -1 turns on the trace flag for all connections without having to restart SQL Server, and you can make it a startup trace flag too.<\/p>\n

I strongly recommend that everyone enables this trace flag – there are no downsides.<\/p>\n

Excellent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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