Greetings. The other day I ran several large index rebuilds at the same time. Without my knowledge a Full backup had started right before I started this process.The space allocated to the Log in question is 180 GB. During this time period I was running TLog backups every 5 minutes, yet the log continued to chew through to 80 GB used, even after the process was complete and a final TLog backup had been taken. It continued to stay very large until the Full backup was complete -- or something else that I'm unaware of completed.
Like every other DBA I typically take a TLog backup to shrink the log, but what appeared to be the case here was the Full completed and it released the used log space.
All said, will Transaction Log backups not free up the log during Full backups?
Thanks in advance! ChrisRDBA