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AskSQLTeam
Ask SQLTeam Question
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 Posted - 2004-01-15 : 07:38:28
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| deeps writes "Helloi am taking backup of database which is on remote machine(Web server and i am not super user ). As size of backup file is large i want to zip tht file . for this i am using xp_cmdshell ... proc . but tht remote machine is not giving me accesss to use xp_cmdshell ... proc how do i use this ? Dipti" |
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SamC
White Water Yakist
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Posted - 2004-01-15 : 08:30:02
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| Sounds like a permissions problem with the username. |
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Merkin
Funky Drop Bear Fearing SQL Dude!
4970 Posts |
Posted - 2004-01-15 : 20:21:26
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| YepMake sure that the account that your SQL server is running under has write permissions on the destination machine.Damian |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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Posted - 2004-01-15 : 20:38:53
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| If this is through a job, then the account that the SQLSERVERAGENT uses needs permission to the remote machine to write the file. If you are doing this outside of a job, then the person logged into the machine running the commands must have write permissions on the remote machine.Tara |
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Zipping file which is on remote machine