backupmediaset (Transact-SQL)

Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Managed Instance

Contains one row for each backup media set. This table is stored in the msdb database.

Column name	Data type	Description
media_set_id	int	Unique media set identification number. Identity, primary key.
media_uuid	uniqueidentifier	The UUID of the media set. All Microsoft SQL Server media sets have a UUID. For earlier versions of SQL Server, however, if a media set contains only one media family, the media_uuid column might be NULL (media_family_count is 1).
media_family_count	tinyint	Number of media families in the media set. Can be NULL.
name	nvarchar(128)	Name of the media set. Can be NULL. For more information, see MEDIANAME and MEDIADESCRIPTION in BACKUP (Transact-SQL).
description	nvarchar(255)	Textual description of the media set. Can be NULL. For more information, see MEDIANAME and MEDIADESCRIPTION in BACKUP (Transact-SQL).
software_name	nvarchar(128)	Name of the backup software that wrote the media label. Can be NULL.
software_vendor_id	int	Identification number of the software vendor that wrote the backup media label. Can be NULL. The value for Microsoft SQL Server is hexadecimal 0x1200.
MTF_major_version	tinyint	Major version number of Microsoft Tape Format used to generate this media set. Can be NULL.
mirror_count	tinyint	Number of mirrors in the media set.
is_password_protected	bit	Is the media set password protected: 0 = Not protected 1 = Protected
is_compressed	bit	Whether the backup is compressed: 0 = Not compressed 1 = Compressed During an msdb upgrade, this value is set to NULL. which indicates an uncompressed backup.
is_encrypted	Bit	Whether the backup is encrypted: 0 = Not encrypted 1 = Encrypted

Remarks

RESTORE VERIFYONLY FROM backup_device WITH LOADHISTORY populates the columns of the backupmediaset table with the appropriate values from the media-set header.

To reduce the number of rows in this table and in other backup and history tables, execute the sp_delete_backuphistory stored procedure.

Examples

Query backup history

The following query returns successful backup information from the past 2 months.

SELECT bs.database_name,
	backuptype = CASE
			WHEN bs.type = 'D'
			AND bs.is_copy_only = 0 THEN 'Full Database'
			WHEN bs.type = 'D'
			AND bs.is_copy_only = 1 THEN 'Full Copy-Only Database'
			WHEN bs.type = 'I' THEN 'Differential database backup'
			WHEN bs.type = 'L' THEN 'Transaction Log'
			WHEN bs.type = 'F' THEN 'File or filegroup'
			WHEN bs.type = 'G' THEN 'Differential file'
			WHEN bs.type = 'P' THEN 'Partial'
			WHEN bs.type = 'Q' THEN 'Differential partial'
		END + ' Backup',
	CASE bf.device_type
			WHEN 2 THEN 'Disk'
			WHEN 5 THEN 'Tape'
			WHEN 7 THEN 'Virtual device'
			WHEN 9 THEN 'Azure Storage'
			WHEN 105 THEN 'A permanent backup device'
			ELSE 'Other Device'
		END AS DeviceType,
	bms.software_name AS backup_software,
	bs.recovery_model,
	bs.compatibility_level,
	BackupStartDate = bs.Backup_Start_Date,
	BackupFinishDate = bs.Backup_Finish_Date,
	LatestBackupLocation = bf.physical_device_name,
	backup_size_mb = CONVERT(decimal(10, 2), bs.backup_size/1024./1024.),
	compressed_backup_size_mb = CONVERT(decimal(10, 2), bs.compressed_backup_size/1024./1024.),
	database_backup_lsn, -- For tlog and differential backups, this is the checkpoint_lsn of the FULL backup it is based on.
	checkpoint_lsn,
	begins_log_chain,
	bms.is_password_protected
FROM msdb.dbo.backupset bs
LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily bf ON bs.[media_set_id] = bf.[media_set_id]
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.backupmediaset bms ON bs.[media_set_id] = bms.[media_set_id]
WHERE bs.backup_start_date > DATEADD(MONTH, -2, sysdatetime()) --only look at last two months
ORDER BY bs.database_name ASC, bs.Backup_Start_Date DESC;

See Also

Backup and Restore Tables (Transact-SQL)
backupfile (Transact-SQL)
backupfilegroup (Transact-SQL)
backupmediafamily (Transact-SQL)
backupset (Transact-SQL)
System Tables (Transact-SQL)