Error: Backup Log terminating abnormally

hi
i am using sql server 2000. when i try to backup log file it throws out the following error and hence the second command that is dbcc shrinkfile never gets executed. if i restart sql server and re-run these commands ... no error pops up ... both the comma
nds get completed sccessfully and log file gets shrunk too.
these are the commands that i run
BACKUP LOG BAMPrimaryImport WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY
DBCC SHRINKFILE ( BAMPrimaryImport_log, 500 )
this is the error that i get
Server: Msg 3023, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
Backup and file manipulation operations (such as ALTER DATABASE ADD FILE) on a database must be serialized. Reissue the statement after the current backup or file manipulation operation is completed.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.
I am quite sure that no other command is active at the time when i issue these commands, still i get error. any help will be appreciated.
regards
yashrah.
Hi
Can you check your SQL Error log for the message when this command failed,
also can you please provide the SQL Server 2000 Service pack level.
you can get the Service pack level by running select @.@.version from query
analyzer.
Also, do you have replication set up, if yes, what kind of replication?
3023 means, It thinks there is some concurrent database operation going on
that is blocking the ALTER DATABASE, because it is unable to acquire the
database lock.
Regards
Sadeesh
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"Yashrah [Xavor]" <YashrahXavor@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hi
> i am using sql server 2000. when i try to backup log file it throws out
> the following error and hence the second command that is dbcc shrinkfile
> never gets executed. if i restart sql server and re-run these commands ...
> no error pops up ... both the commands get completed sccessfully and log
> file gets shrunk too.
> these are the commands that i run
> BACKUP LOG BAMPrimaryImport WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY
> DBCC SHRINKFILE ( BAMPrimaryImport_log, 500 )
> this is the error that i get
> Server: Msg 3023, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
> Backup and file manipulation operations (such as ALTER DATABASE ADD FILE)
> on a database must be serialized. Reissue the statement after the current
> backup or file manipulation operation is completed.
> Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
> BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.
> I am quite sure that no other command is active at the time when i issue
> these commands, still i get error. any help will be appreciated.
> regards
> yashrah.
|||thanx for ur concern...
SQL Error Log says
2004-07-22 02:40:23.10 backup BACKUP failed to complete the command exec shrink_bamprimaryimport_logfile
infact "shrink_bamprimaryimport_logfile" is my stored procedure that contains the two commands (backup log and dbcc shrinkfile) written below.
servie pack 3a is installed and no replication set up is there.
"Sadeesh[MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi
> Can you check your SQL Error log for the message when this command failed,
> also can you please provide the SQL Server 2000 Service pack level.
> you can get the Service pack level by running select @.@.version from query
> analyzer.
> Also, do you have replication set up, if yes, what kind of replication?
> 3023 means, It thinks there is some concurrent database operation going on
> that is blocking the ALTER DATABASE, because it is unable to acquire the
> database lock.
> Regards
> Sadeesh
> --
> This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> "Yashrah [Xavor]" <YashrahXavor@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:73E811CE-FCBF-4D29-9538-6D22F842A8EC@.microsoft.com...
>
>