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By: Julio

Julio — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:52:28 +0000

can restore different or multiple files *. bak from microsoft magnament studio, from a path example c: \ bakups \; containing different databases. many scrips in internet but none refers to this

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By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:15:12 +0000

Backup database db_name to disk=’file path’

By: kali

kali — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:22:45 +0000

i want a script file for taking backup in sql server 2008

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Wed, 26 Dec 2012 01:31:08 +0000

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By: anujbhai

anujbhai — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:40:06 +0000

I have 10 databases. and I have n different different systems which has own SQL-SERVER . All systems may contain any no. of databases from 10 databases.

I want to write a cmmon query to take backup of those database only which lies in those 10 databases only.

Ex. databases is A,B, C, D, E, F, G, H

SYSTEM 1 HAS DATABASE A,B,C AND Z
SYSTEM 2 HAS DATABASE A, C, D, E, P, Y, Z

i want to write a query which can take backup only A,B,C or A,C,D,E not P,Y,Z.

pls help me

By: Karthik

Karthik — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:16:37 +0000

Can u please help me in understanding restoring of the Split backups with “With Move” option….

By: TechBang

TechBang — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:42:34 +0000

The multiple restore throws up the following error

“Msg 3231, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The media loaded on “D:\projects\SIMS\db\DIMS2Auditcopy.bak” is formatted to support 1 media families, but 2 media families are expected according to the backup device specification. Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.”

for -

RESTORE DATABASE SIMDB
FROM DISK = N’D:\db\db1.bak’,
DISK = N’D:\db\db2.bak’
GO

executed from SQL Management Studio.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:32:46 +0000

Really awesome explanation

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By: Jordon B

Jordon B — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:31:32 +0000

@Murali,

USE MSDB
SELECT * FROM Backupset

From there you can filter what information you need via the WHERE clause.

We use that T-SQL above for our DRS site. Our admins there just click the batch file we made and it restores all differentials and translogs.

Commandline would be:

SQLCMD -S -E -d msdb -h-1 -W -Q “”

-E is for trusted connection
We use -h-1 so we don’t have to see header information. Makes it easier to parse the data returned.
-W removes any trailing spaces.

I know this was a little late, but I thought this might help anyone.

By: Murali

Murali — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:36:10 +0000

HI Pinal,

i have dought in Backups,
how to find out current LSN number of a backup by using command prompt.

Thanks& Regards
Murali

By: Rathnakar

Rathnakar — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:23:11 +0000

excellent Pinal

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Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:33:35 +0000

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By: Dileep Kumar

Dileep Kumar — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:20:49 +0000

awesome Pinal ..

By: RAJU BANDARU

RAJU BANDARU — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:21:26 +0000

Very good to understand …….

By: Luca Vallo

Luca Vallo — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:58:16 +0000

Hello Pinal, nice job!
I’d like to add that, if you have to restore a splitted backup, the sequence of the files included in the RESTORE DATABASE statement doesn’t matter

For example:

RESTORE DATABASE AdventureWorks
FROM DISK=N’E:\AdventureWorks2.bak’,
DISK=N’D:\AdventureWorks1.bak’
with (…)

will work fine.
Obviously, you have to speccify all of the files the backup in splitted in, the sequence in unimportant.
Cheers!

By: Matteo

Matteo — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:57:02 +0000

Hello Pinal, nice job!
I’d like to add that, if you have to restore a splitted backup, the sequence of the files included in the RESTORE DATABASE statement doesn’t matter

For example:

RESTORE DATABASE AdventureWorks
FROM DISK=N’E:\AdventureWorks2.bak’,
DISK=N’D:\AdventureWorks1.bak’
with (…)

will work fine.
Obviously, you have to speccify all of the files the backup in splitted in, the sequence in unimportant.
Cheers!

By: Ayham Mohammad

Ayham Mohammad — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:25:30 +0000

Thanks a lot,
this way we can gain a high availability when mirroring,
i’d like to ask how to do this in a maintenance plan in SQL2k8.
Regards,

By: Sanjeev

Sanjeev — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 08:12:06 +0000

Hi dave,

When w are taking backups on multiple drives using mirror option, will it be more time consuming?

Regards,

sanjeev Kumar

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Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:31:07 +0000

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By: sam

sam — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:14:29 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I m little bit confussed here in ur example u have specifed that u r having two USB of 8 GB each.

so the drive path for the USB will be different are you saying that we can split the 14 GB database backup into two file like 7GB each.

Can u please clarify.

I have understood ur concept.

Regards
sam

By: vadim

vadim — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:33:08 +0000

Hi, we have several mirrored databases.
What is the ‘correct’ way of backing up the mirrored dbs?
Recently we had a situation when after a couple of the dbs have failed over, the backup job failed to complete as the dbs status had changed from principal to mirrored.
Should we setup identical backup jobs on both servers in anticipation that only one job succeed against the principal database…

Your help would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Vadim

By: Pinal Dave

Pinal Dave — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:10:39 +0000

Hello Nafiseh,

Create a network drive for your local disk and then backup on the network drive.
Other wise take the backup on the server’s disk and then copy to your local disk.

Regards,
Pinal Dave

By: Nafiseh

Nafiseh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:25:07 +0000

Dear sir
thank you for your helpful blog,
i have a question and i am so confused about this problem , i am a beginner and i would be happy if you help me ,
is there any way to back up from a database (sqlserver)
into the local computer ??
i mean i want to make a back up in my local computer from server .
thanks alot