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SERVER - FIX - ERROR : Msg 3201, Level 16 Cannot open backup device . Operating system error 5(Access is denied.) April 13, 2011Pinal DaveSQL39 commentsRecently I formatted my computer and installed fresh SQL Server
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in it. I installed the AdventureWorks database in my database. Once done, cannot open backup device operating system error 2 the system cannot find the file specified I wanted to run few test scripts on my database. Just like every DBA, I decided to take
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backup of my database - this way I can restore it back to attain an original database state. As soon as I ran the backup command I ended up cannot open backup device operating system error 5 failed to retrieve with the following error. This error is due to a permissions issue on the local disk and user account which is running SQL Server. In this blog post we will talk about the operating system error. Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot open backup device ‘C:\AdventureWorks.bak'. Operating system error 5(Access is denied.). Fix/Resolution/Workaround: I checked which user accounts sql server cannot open backup device the system cannot find the file specified my SQL Server services are running.I gave full permission to that account to get rid of the error.NOTE: This whole experience was done on the my personal machine and not on the production server. Please check with your network administrator for permission on production server.Let me know if you have ever faced such error and if you have, how did you fix the error. Please leave a comment with your answer. I hope you find this blog post helpful.Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Tags: SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Data Storage, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server33Related Articles SQL SERVER - DQS Error - Cannot connect to server - A .NET Framework error occurred during execution September 3, 2012Pinal Dave SQL SERVER - Backup to Azure Blob using SQL Server 2014 Management Studio June 24, 2014Pinal Dave SQL SERVER - Fix Error - 948 A downgrade path is not supported. The database cannot be opened because it is version. June 25, 2016Pinal Dave 39 comments. Leave new Eugene April 13, 2011 12:24 pmSimple but useful topic =) ThxReply Jonathan Keh
SERVER - FIX - Error 3201 - Cannot open backup device. Operating system error 3 January 30, 2015Pinal DaveSQL Tips and TricksNo CommentsThis blog is in continuing to use the default values. Earlier this week I wrote a blog which talked
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about the failure of Create Database Command. Let see in this blog post system.data.sqlclient.sqlerror: cannot open backup device how we can solve the error 3201.While working on the reproduction of the issue, I changed the parameters and
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later realized that the backup database command was also failing. If you rely on the default values for folders that don’t exist, this will raise an error message as shown below. Here is http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/04/13/sql-server-fix-error-msg-3201-level-16-cannot-open-backup-device-operating-system-error-5access-is-denied/ the simple command which I have run: BACKUP DATABASE MASTER TO DISK = 'master.bak' The command was failing with below error.Here is the text of the message shown in image: Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Cannot open backup device ‘E:\InvalidPath\master.bak'. Operating system error 3(The system cannot find the path specified.). Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.If you notice http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2015/01/30/sql-server-fix-error-msg-3201-level-16-state-1-line-1-cannot-open-backup-device-operating-system-error-3the-system-cannot-find-the-path-specified/ the error message is pretty clear. The backup is going to path “E:\InvalidPath” which is an invalid folder on my system. Important point to note here is that I have NOT given any file path in the command, I have just given file name master.bak.The question is, from where the path is picked? If you have read my previous blog, it’s picked from “BackupDirectory” value in registry location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.SQL2014\MSSQLServerThe highlighted portion might change based on SQL Version and Instance ID. For me it’s MSSQL12 because this is SQL Server 2014 instance. And my instance name is SQL2014:SQL VersionFolder NameSQL Server 2008MSSQL10SQL Server 2008 R2MSSQL10_50SQL Server 2012MSSQL11SQL Server 2014MSSQL12For example, if you have SQL Server 2012 default instance, it would be MSSQL11.MSSQLServer.Here is the registry valueWe can change it via SQL Server Management Studio too. You can right click on server node and go to properties. Then choose “Database Settings” tab.If you want to use T-SQL then here is the script. EXEC xp_instance_regwrite N'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', N'Software\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServer', N'BackupDirectory', REG_SZ, N'E:\InvalidPath' GO NOTE: Once you have changed the value, SQL Service restart is needed so that SQL can pick-up changed values.Now that we have seen a coup
SERVER -Fix Error - Cannot open backup device. Operating system error 5(Access is denied.) December 8, 2014Pinal DaveSQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks10 commentsThis has to be the most popular error in taking database backups. There http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2014/12/08/sql-server-fix-error-cannot-open-backup-device-operating-system-error-5access-is-denied/ are many reasons for this error and there are different ways to resolve https://sqlserver-help.com/2014/03/13/troubleshooting-msg-3201-cannot-open-backup-device-operating-system-error-3the-system-cannot-find-the-path-specified/ it. I recently faced this error and for a while I was taking backup and found a very interesting solution to the problem. The error was as mentioned below:Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot open backup device ‘d:\Log\aw.bak'. Operating system error 5(Access is denied.). Msg 3013, cannot open Level 16, State 1, Line 1 BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. Personally, I know this error happens whenThere is no directory with LogThere is not enough space on drive d:\There is not enough permissions on d:\Log driveIn my case all of the above were not the reason for above error. The error was there because of the file was read only. There was cannot open backup already another backup file which existed in the folder with the name aw.bak and it was marked as read only. Due to the same reason, my backup was failing. Once I removed the checkbox for reading only, the backup was successful.Here are few other blog posts related to this error, which I have written earlier.SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR : Msg 3201, Level 16 Cannot open backup device . Operating system error 5(Access is denied.)SQL SERVER -Fix Error – Cannot open backup device. Operating system error 5(Access is denied.)SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: )SQL SERVER – FIX : Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database – SSMSReference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com) Tags: SQL Error Messages221Related Articles SQL SERVER - ERROR: FIX using Compatibility Level - Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner - Part 2 August 12, 2012Pinal Dave SQL SERVER - Installation Error - T
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