Hi Guys,
So I have just been told that on our live server we have a Transaction Log of 30+ GB. This thing has never been backed up and will continue to grow.
I've been tasked to set up a plan to get this thing down to a manageable level, for which I think I have a plan. But just want to make sure I am correct.
Seeing as we don't have enough space on the current drive to have a successful backup complete we will need to back up on a new one, once this has been backed up I will kick off a DBCC SHRINKFILE.
Once I have done that I want to set up the following maintenance plan:
- FULL Backup of Database - Weekly
- Transactional Log Backup - Hourly
My question is:
The 30GB original log file. How long would we have to keep this for? Seeing as I will be creating a plan after I've shrunk it I will have to use it in case of a failure. I would assume I could get rid of it after the next FULL database backup.
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