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DBCC check every backup?

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jfdugan

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Nov 12, 2003
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It takes about 18 hours for Veritas to run a DBCC check on my 20Gb database. This overlaps into time when the DB is being accesed by users...

Is this safe?

Is there any advantage to checing this on each daily DB dump?
 
According to the Veritas site

For SQL 2000 Server: PHYSICAL_ONLY

-john
 
ok, so it's running DBCC CHECKDB ('database_name') WITH PHYSICAL_ONLY

If you check DBCC CHECKDB is Books online it should provide you with the information your need.

There is no problem with using the database while CheckDB is being run, however it will slow the system down. There is no need for this to be run daily. For my large databases I run checkdb weekly, on the weekends so as to not effect users.

Denny
 
Thanks, that gives me a good place to start from...

-john
 
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