After upgrade LiteSpeed from version 6.5 to version 8.2, Log Shipping jobs failed with following error:
“The process could not be created for step 1 of job 0xBBFD696A4B0B264F8EB12F54AD818029 (reason: The system cannot find the file specified). The step failed.”
The LiteSpeed Engine location of version 8.x changed to C:\Program Files\Dell\LiteSpeed\SQL Server\Engine while 6.5 was at C:\Program Files\Quest Software\LiteSpeed\SQL Server\Engine.
For some reason, the upgrade process did not update the existing jobs correctly to use the new executable path.
WORKAROUND 1:
Manually modify the job steps to point the executable to the correct location.
WORKAROUND 2
Run the below script on all SQL servers with this issue. (IE: Log shipping jobs that no longer run after upgrade to LS 8.2.)
declare @installpath nvarchar(1024)
declare @job_id uniqueidentifier
declare @command nvarchar(1024)
declare @new_command nvarchar(1024)
declare @name nvarchar(1024)
declare @step_id int
set @installpath = N'"C:\Program Files\Dell\LiteSpeed\SQL Server\'
if (RIGHT(@installpath,1)<>\)
set @installpath = @installpath+\
if object_id('tempdb..[#_94DFC253194148B094A0599F2534D995]') is not null
drop table [#_94DFC253194148B094A0599F2534D995]
select
js.job_id,
js.command,
jv.name,
js.step_id
into #_94DFC253194148B094A0599F2534D995
FROM msdb..sysjobsteps js inner join msdb..sysjobs_view jv on js.job_id=jv.job_id
where CHARINDEX(N'LiteSpeed Log Shipping', jv.name)=1
declare logship_cursor CURSOR for
select job_id,command,name, step_id
from #_94DFC253194148B094A0599F2534D995
open logship_cursor
fetch next from logship_cursor
into @job_id,@command,@name,@step_id
while @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
begin
set @new_command = @installpath+'Engine\SLSLogShip.exe' + RIGHT(@command, LEN(@command)-CHARINDEX('"',@command,2)+1)
exec msdb..sp_update_jobstep
@step_id = @step_id,
@job_id = @job_id,
@command = @new_command
fetch next From logship_cursor into @job_id, @command,@name,@step_id
end
close logship_cursor
deallocate logship_cursor
drop table [#_94DFC253194148B094A0599F2534D995]
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