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Backup SQL Server 2008 DB without Full Text Catalog

I am trying to backup a SQL Server 2008 database without the FULL Text Catalog. I tried to remove full text catalog and indexes before backup like this:

DROP FULLTEXT INDEX ON table1
DROP FULLTEXT INDEX ON table2
DROP FULLTEXT INDEX ON table3


DROP FULLTEXT CATALOG DBFullTextCatalog
EXEC sp_fulltext_database 'disable'

It says all commands executed successfully, however, when I do backup I still get the full text files in the backup:

SET @BackupPath = @BackupPath + N'DB_17965_1_backup.bak'
BACKUP DATABASE [DB_17965_1]
TO  DISK = @BackupPath
WITH NOFORMAT, INIT,  NAME = N'DB_17965_1-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10

results in

10 percent processed.
20 percent processed.
30 percent processed.
40 percent processed.
50 percent processed.
60 percent processed.
70 percent processed.
80 percent processed.
90 percent processed.
Processed 832 pages for database 'DB_17965_1', file 'CelebrityGet' on file 1.
Processed 8 pages for database 'DB_17965_1', file 'ftrow_CelebritygetFullTextCatalog' on file 1.
100 percent processed.
Processed 1 pages for database 'DB_17965_1', file 'CelebrityGet_log' on file 1.
BACKUP DATABASE successfully processed 841 pages in 0.431 seconds (15.244 MB/sec).
Solution

  • I did it. I had to delete full text files manually from DB properties window before making the backup. The DROP statements never removed the files. That's weird!!