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Troubleshoot backup \ restore issues with trace flag 3004

I faced an issue during restoration of very large db in our development database \ server. Issue is restoration takes very long time even though we had latest hardware and recent version of SQL Server (it’s SQL 2008 Ent. Ed). So to troubleshoot it I have used the trace flag 3004 which print all internal things happen during backup and restoration operation.

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Suppress Backup information in Errorlog

After a long gap I’m writing a article. This article is all about suppressing successful backup information into errorlog. Let me explain my scenario, In my working environment we have a production SQL Server with 60+ databases, all the databases are set to full recovery and data loss is accepted only for 15 min. Yeah you got me, we are taking Full backup daily, differential every 4 hours and transaction log backup  every 15 min, there is no problem with the backup. We have one thing that is messing our error log, whenever a backup is taken by default SQL Server will write the detail to the errorlog as shown below.

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