Greetings,
I'm looking for a little guidance. I work for a medium sized bank
with about 20 SQL servers in 2 locations. We have two backup schemes -
Less critical SQL boxes have nightly DB backups and Transaction Log
dumps, more critical boxes have additional hourly transaction dumps.
The database maintenance should be deleting any backups more than 2
days old (Should have been picked up by system backups and moved to SAN
by then).
My question: Sometimes the SQL backups fail, usually for lack of
disk space. As it stands now it's a tedious process of reviewing the
logs of each of the 20 servers to check for failure. Is there a product
that can centralize these logs or give meaningful errors on failure?
I'm not real keen on using the email/pager reporting function from
the DB Maintenance. We have 4 techs who rotate on reviewing the logs
and we don't want to receive unnecessary emails 75% of the time or have
to change the account info every week.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank,
Jim