通过使用窗口计划来安排SQL Server Express的每日备份

Question

i want to schedule a daily backup with SQL Server Express by using window schedule. I am able to backup my database to D drive.But when i try to backup my database to c drive. The ms sql return me this error

    Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
Cannot open backup device 'C:\inetpub\Project backup Live\LewreDB backup\Wednesday\20120502.bak'. Operating system error 5(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 15105).
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.

Here is my query

   DECLARE @pathName NVARCHAR(512) 
SET @pathName = 'C:\inetpub\Project backup Live\LewreDB backup\' + DATENAME(DW,GETDATE())+'\'+ Convert(varchar(8), GETDATE(), 112) + '.bak' 
BACKUP DATABASE [LEWREDB] TO  DISK = @pathName WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT,  NAME = N'db_backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10

Did any one face this problem before

Answer 1

Are you trying to backup a SQL Server Express database on a remote server to your local C: drive?

I got a similar error when I thought I could execute SQL on a remote database to backup to a location on my C:\\ drive.

In any case I can recommend a workaround where you run the backup in a batch file fired by a windows scheduled task and include a line in the batch file to copy the backup from the D: drive location on the SQL Express Server to your C: drive location wherever that may be.

Answer 2

This generally happens if you are using the Windows. Always run the application using Adminisatrator privileges and check if you can modify delete or create the folder in c: drive manually.