failed to restore for PROXY session data on SQLServer

Article Id: 6771

Status: Published

Updated On: 14-02-2018 08:14

Legacy Id: TEC1907494

Products:

CA Virtual Privilege Manager , CA Privileged Identity Management Endpoint (PIM) , CA Privileged Access Manager (PAM)

Issue/Introduction:

Customer tried restore along with document as related contents.

Administrating

+ Enterprise Administration

+ Proxy Connection

+ Manage the Recorded Proxy Session Data

https://docops.ca.com/ca-privileged-identity-manager/12-9-02/EN/administrating/enterprise-administration/proxy-connection/manage-the-recorded-proxy-session-data#ManagetheRecordedProxySessionData-RestoretheArchivedProxySessionsDataonMicrosoftSQLServer

But she got error as following:

SQLState = S1000, NativeError = 0,

Error = [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server] invalid EOF in BCP datafile.

what doe it happen?

Cause:

The error message is caused by SQLServer.

It seems to be meaning restore file is invalid.

The problem is caused appeared separator character, ',' , as binary data in backed up file.

So, SQLServer recognizes invalid field and got error.

Environment:

OS: Windows 2012 R2 Product: CA Privileged Identity Manager for SAM r12.9 SP1 Central DB: MS SQLServer 2014 Userstore: Embedded

Resolution:

please change option "-n -t," to "-c -t'\t'"

For Example:

Backup:

before: bcp QUERYSTR queryout ARCHIVEFILE -n -t, ...

after : bcp QUERYSTR queryout ARCHIVEFILE -c -t\t ...

Restore:

before: bcp TableOnDatabase STR in ARCHIVEFILE -n -t, ...

after : bcp TableOnDatabase STR in ARCHIVEFILE -c -t\t ...