I took backup my database from sql server 2008 r2 but forgot to give extension as .bak into wizard. Backup of database is successfully but when i tried to restore by wizard or by command (with replace) it gives me error. Can you suggest me how to restore database if i forgot .bak extension

I got this error when i used this query “.bak’ is incorrectly formed. sql server cannot process this media family”.

plz help me out of this

Thanks & Regards
Mordhwaj Chauhan

Please help pinal.

Thanks,
Nimish Patel

I had created my db using SQL Server 2005 express, now i need to work on SQL Server 2008, but I am unable to restore my bd as it is showing Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database. I have unstalled SQL Server 2005 express from my system.

Can you please help me out.

Thanks in advance…

Regards,
karuna
Karuna

Regards,
Prashanth

When I executed maintenance plan which takes the backup of databases I am encountered with following error.

Msg 3007, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The backup of the file or filegroup “sysft_TeamFoundationServer10FullTextCatalog” is not permitted because it is not online. BACKUP can be performed by using the FILEGROUP or FILE clauses to restrict the selection to include only online data.

Can you please help me out.

Thanks in advance!!

Santosh

RESTORE FILELISTONLY
FROM DISK = ‘\\xyz\ E:\BACKUP\Steps_Final.BAK’

these command print the information of .bak file but i wants to receive logical name of .bak file in variables.

please give me any solution

Thanks
rohit

Was the restore process completed successfully and verify that you havn’t used the NORECOVERY option? If not, and its taking more than expected time than verify that the restore process is not listed in SP_WHO or sys.dm_exec_requests. Verify the backup file using RESTORE VERIFYONLY command and restore the database again.

Regards,
Pinal Dave

I restored database but after two days database be in recovery (can not open database and delete)

I want to convert database to norecovery

please , help me

I’m trying to establish Mirroringand due to the reason I wanted to take the full,differential and t-log backup of the source DB.I used the following queries to take the backups:

backup database sourav to disk = ‘c:\backup\sourav_full.bak’

BACKUP DATABASE sourav
TO DISK =’c:\backup\sourav_diff.bak’
–MIRROR TO DISK =’D:\DBBackup\Products_Mirror_Set_2.bak’
–MIRROR TO DISK =’E:\DBBackup\Products_Mirror_Set_3.bak’
WITH DIFFERENTIAL

backup log sourav to disk = ‘c:\backup\sourav_log.bak’

Now, while restoring the database I am getting the message.
what should be the correct syntax? I want to restore the backuped up files to the mirror server location C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\MSSQL\Data) using ‘no-recovery’ option which is crutial for the database mirroring.

Pls assist.

Regards,
Sourav

Tim

This is an excellent site, and your answers to diff queries are
perfect.

I easily find a solution everytime I log on.

Thank you!

Ujwala

I had a server with sql express 2005 which crashed recently
i have a backup with file without any extension

now i want to use it and restore a database using the backup file in a new server with sql 2008 in it.

How can i do it..?

can you give me some solution?

Thanks.
Praveen

Abdul

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Thanks again!
Don Roquerre

The file “sysft_mydb001″ failed to initialize correctly

in my data files I don’t even have sysft files. Is this an incompatability of SQL Express?

Thanks for your blog!
Daniel

Thought I might add that if you don’t know the names to add to the MOVE command, RESTORE FILELISTONLY can give you that information, Eg:

RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK=’C:\BackupAdventureworks.bak’

regards,
Kevin