If I need to restore a database when all I have is the backup file, do I need to recreate all the tables, or is it possible to restore into a new database ?
Is it possible to restore a sql server 2000 database into a sql server 2005 database ?
I want to read certain data from the backup file of MS SQL 2000 without restoring the database backup file. Based on the data selected I will manage the further functionality such as restoration of the backup file. Is it possible to read some data from MS SQL 2000 backup file without restoring? If yes then please let me know how?
I got full backup on daily schedule its taking more space on Drive because each file has more than 25GB.I am using SLQ server 2008R2 so I'm looking to take the backup with compression instead of uncompressed Backup. What are the impacts of compressed backup. Is there any problems with compressed backup while restoring the backup file.
Our branch office in Europe has sent full 'backup' file of capacity 25GB. I have to restore this backup to our database. Their database is 'Candidate' and our database is 'client'. Both these databases have different logical names and physical names.
The following Batch script only I hv executed,
RESTORE DATABASE Client FROM DISK = 'd:dumppaw01dump.bak' WITH MOVE 'candidatedata' TO 'e:mssqldataclient_data.mdf', MOVE 'candidatelog' TO 'd:mssqllogclient_log.ldf', REPLACE
Can anybody tell me, what I have executed above is correct or not. Now restoration is going on for more than an hr. Still it is going on. Is there any other way to restore this backup set very fastly.
Our server has got very good hardware setup. Good amount of hard disk space. 4GB RAM Memory. Running 4 processors. No other service is running apart from SQL Server. Right now nobody is accessing the server.
How long it will take to restore this backupset?. This is urgent please.
I did tried the encryption on server "A" for database "AdventureWorks2012". Then I tried to restore to server "B". There was the certificate issue, and I thought "of course : it's encrypted ! Let's deactivate it". So here I go "ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2012 SET ENCYRPTION OFF".I look at sys.databases : not encrypted.I backup using no encryption, I verify using msdb.dbo.backupset : not encrypted.
I move my backup to my other server where encryption was never configured (so no certificate, nothing...), and I have the error : Msg 33111, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
Cannot find server certificate with thumbprint '0xFA130E58C999C4919B8975999C83A75A403B11D8'. Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
I am trying to replicate a client's environment on my home development machine in order to develop some reports. At the client (SQL 6.5) I did a complete backup to a .dat file. How can I restore from this file into my home (SQL 7) server to create a duplicate database?? I tried restoring from a device, specified the file, but I get an "not a valid tape format ....." error. Help!
I hv taken a backup of 'pubs' DB both 'full backup' and 'differential backup', and I have created a new DB called 'TEST'. Now I want to restore the 'pubs' db's backup files into 'TEST' DB(Full backup followed by Differential Backup).
I want to do this in 'T-SQL' not through 'Enterprise Manager'. The following is the command I have given,
"restore database test from pubs_backup with norecovery,file=5,replace"
Error: ====== Server: Msg 4038, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot find file ID 5 on device 'pubs_backup'. Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally.
I am in the process of moving a database to a new location. My problem is that I do not have the most recent full backup file. I have a previous full backup file and I also have all of the transaction log backups from the time of the old backup to the present time.
My question is, do I need the most recent backup to restore the database, or can I do it with the older backup plus the transaction log backups?
I am needing to restore a SQL server 7 database. I had a backup, but the media it was on has failed. I have copies of the folder the original database was in (.mdf files and such), but I was wondering if there is a way to re-integrate these files in order to pick up where we left off. Thank you.
Every hour I make a backup of the log files of a database to a backup device. Each backup is appended to this backup device.
Now to restore at a point in time I normally use the following script;
RESTORE DATABASE mcs_carolus FROM disk='E:sqlserver_databasesmcs_carolus_data.bak' WITH REPLACE, NORECOVERY go RESTORE LOG MCS_CAROLUS FROM disk='E:sqlserver_databasesmcs_carolus_log.bak' WITH FILE = 1, NORECOVERY GO RESTORE LOG MCS_CAROLUS FROM disk='E:sqlserver_databasesmcs_carolus_log.bak' WITH FILE = 2, NORECOVERY GO RESTORE LOG MCS_CAROLUS FROM disk='E:sqlserver_databasesmcs_carolus_log.bak' WITH FILE = 3, NORECOVERY GO RESTORE LOG MCS_CAROLUS FROM disk='E:sqlserver_databasesmcs_carolus_log.bak' WITH FILE = 4, NORECOVERY GO RESTORE LOG MCS_CAROLUS FROM disk='E:sqlserver_databasesmcs_carolus_log.bak' WITH FILE = 5, NORECOVERY GO RESTORE LOG MCS_CAROLUS FROM disk='E:sqlserver_databasesmcs_carolus_log.bak' WITH FILE = 6, NORECOVERY GO RESTORE LOG MCS_CAROLUS FROM disk='E:sqlserver_databasesmcs_carolus_log.bak' WITH FILE = 7, RECOVERY,STOPAT = 'Nov 25, 2004 11:59 AM'
Is there a simpler way of restoring without going through this long process.
When performing a tail log backup to an online database through SSMS, the database is placed in restoring state. Is there a proper procedure to take the database out of restoring state after the backup is completed?
I have a Subscriber database updated using transactional replication and want to create a copy for development & testing. The Distribution database is running on the same 2005 instance as the Subscriber and the Publication database on another server running SQL Server 2005.
If I use a TSQL script to run the restore, the database is restored to a usable state but I get the following messages:
Msg 15247, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_MSrepl_check_job_access, Line 112 User does not have permission to perform this action. The replication agent job [job name] was not removed because it has a non-standard name; manually remove the job when it is no longer in use. (I€™ve removed the job name from the message) RESTORE DATABASE successfully processed 46219 pages in 935.413 seconds (0.404 MB/sec).
It looks like an attempt is being made to restore replication information too. I note that the RESTORE statement has a KEEP_REPLICATION options which implies (I would have thought) that by default the replication information is not be restored.
Incidentally, before implementing replication, backing up the live database and restoring the backup to a new database took < 7 minutes but running the same process with a Subscriber database backup takes about 15 minutes.
I€™d be interested to know if anyone has any idea what I€™m overlooking or doing wrong.
backup database PPLicense to disk = 'D:License.bak'
I have run this 5 times. If I know run this command:
restore headeronly from disk = 'D:License.bak'
I can see 5 entries returned this all looks good. In SQL Management studio I try and restore this database by selecting the file. The Restore Database dialog only shows the last backup set position i.e. position 5 and now the 4 before it. Why is this not showing the 4 previous backups?
I am using SQL Server 2012 SP 2 (Version 11.0.3460).
I have a MSSQL7 data file mydata_data.mdf that I would like to load into my MSSQL7. When I try to restore to my database, I got an error message saying MSSQl does not recognize the file as a valid backup file.
I am trying to restore a database called BCC_DB (I'm actually just needing one table opened to find some data in one column) so I created a blank database called BCCrestore.
I have a .bak file called BCC_DB_backup_201505020017.bak.
I placed it in my local drive C:BCC_DB_backup_201505020017.bak and tried the SQL:
RESTORE DATABASE BCCrestore FROM DISK = 'C:BCC_DB_backup_201505020017.bak' GO
I get an error:
Msg 3201, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Cannot open backup device 'C:BCC_DB_backup_201505020017.bak'. Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.). Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
I have just installed sql server 2005 in a windows server 2003 server. i tried to create a new database from a backup file. after selecting the backup to restore i got the net message.
Restore failed for Server '<ServerName>'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Directory lookup for the file'<D:file name.mdf>'. failled with Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.). (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
i found some information about and it says that it has something to do with the sql writer service i tryed stopping the service but i could not restore the db.
I am newbie to SQL database.When I try to restore the SQL database using the Restore database option in SQL server 2005 following error occurs Restore failed for Server 'MANASIDSQLEXPRESS'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.00&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates.FailedOperationExceptionText&EvtID=Restore+Server&LinkId=20476 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing 'KAM_Manasi' database. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) If the back up file contains files other than I want to restore, how can I restore the files I want in my database? Please help ,its argent.
I am moving a database from one server to another. I am going to replace the old server to the new one. I heard that you can move the datfiles and put them in the same directory, and sql server will pickup the datafiles based on the system tables. Is this possible, and what are the steps to get this to work. Thanks for the help in advance.
I should restore a SQL Server 2005 Database from backup. The backup contains three files, named user.bak0, user.bak1 and user.bak2.
How is the syntax of the restore filelistonly and the restore database ... ?
I usualy write restore filelistonly from disk = 'path and filenam.bak' restore database. zy from disk = 'path and filename.bak' with replace, move..... move....
This works but I cannot use it with a splitted backup file. The files are much too big to put together to one file.
I wonder how do I shrink log file in a specific database which in Mirror/Synchronized/Restoring state..So that database is in Mirror server ( High availability ).
I did a full backup of a db from one server(Express2005) and trying to restore it to a different instance of SQL2005 on the same development machine. (Also had some fulltext columns if that means anything)
Many failures but finally got it to report all was successful except the icon in Object Explorer shows (Restoring...) with no indication of any real activity going on. It's a tiny database with hardly any data in it.
Just not sure what the heck is going on there. It also won't let me into the database until this the (Restoring...) goes away.
This is a pretty basic question, but I've generated a backup file for one of my SQL 2000 databases, and I need to copy the backup file to another computer so I can burn it on CD. Whenever I try to copy the file, I get an error message saying that the file is in use by another process and can't be copied. I have tried detaching the database, shutting down Enterprise Manager, stopping the MSSQL service, but all to no avail. There must be a way to do this, but I can't get it to work. Does anyone have any ideas?
hello All !! i have taken my backup(back file ) of database and i stored in folder , now i want to know 1)if i format my Hard Disk . and reinstall Sql server 2000 ? 2) if i delete that Database ? how can i REGENERATE my database ?? again thnk u all
How does backup database command works? I don't see size of database backup file increasing while backup is in progress OR is it locked till the backup is finished.
Hi all, I have a ploblem... i have ful backup file, diffrential backup file, transaction log backup file. i want to create a new database form backup file. i do it follow : Using Enterprise manager 1. Rrestore database from full backup file. it is ok. 2. affter that i restore different database differential backup file. it does not work, the error is :' Theproceding operationdid not specify WITH NORECOVERY or WITH STANDBY. Resatr the restore sequence, specifying WITH NORECOVERY or WITH STANDBY for all but the final step. RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally' please show me, nest regard.
Now i must restore a database from a backup file of MS SQL Sever 6.5,but this file is bad. When i restore database from this file, SQL Server tell me that the format of this file is not file format of SQL Server 6.5.So that I must repair this backup file firstly. I don't know database file format of SQL Server 6.5.
I am trying to find out name of the backup file database was restored from (I am restoring from DISK), something similar to physical_device_name in backupmediafamily. restorehistory doesn't have this information. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
I don't know where to post this kind of stuff so here goes...
I have maintenance plans which sometimes fail because the delete step reports that the old backup file is "in use." I have no idea how to determine what Windows thinks is holding the file. HOw do you determine who is holding a file hostage??