As far as I know, once the db backup completes, the log utilization should be clean to zero. But in the activity log, I did find it was not true. Can anybody tell me why? Thanks in advance.
07/11/06 05:07:00 ANR0984I Process 391 for DATABASE BACKUP started in the BACKGROUND at 05:07:00. (PROCESS: 391) 07/11/06 05:07:00 ANR4552I Full database backup triggered; started as process 391. (PROCESS: 391) 07/11/06 05:15:55 ANR4550I Full database backup (process 391) complete, 4216422 pages copied. (PROCESS: 391) 07/11/06 05:15:55 ANR0985I Process 391 for DATABASE BACKUP running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state SUCCESS at 05:15:55. (PROCESS: 391) 07/11/06 05:15:55 ANR4556W Attention: the database backup operation did not free sufficient recovery log space to lower utilization below the database backup trigger. The recovery log size may need to be increased or the database backup trigger parameters may need to be adjusted. 07/11/06 05:16:06 ANR2997W The server log is 80 percent full. The server will delay transactions by 3 milliseconds. (SESSION: 12862) *The first trigger, after db backup completed, the log was still 80% FULL.* ............................................... The second trigger, after db backup completed, the log was still 25% FULL 07/11/06 06:28:13 ANR0984I Process 394 for DATABASE BACKUP started in the BACKGROUND at 06:28:13. (PROCESS: 394) 07/11/06 06:28:13 ANR4552I Full database backup triggered; started as process 394. (PROCESS: 394) 07/11/06 06:39:27 ANR4550I Full database backup (process 394) complete, 4338380 pages copied. (PROCESS: 394) 07/11/06 06:39:27 ANR0985I Process 394 for DATABASE BACKUP running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state SUCCESS at 06:39:27. (PROCESS: 394) 07/11/06 06:39:27 ANR2996I The server log is 25 percent full. The server is no longer delaying transactions. (SESSION: 12957)