Home Forums SQL Server 2005 Backups restoring a filegroup to a point in time RE: restoring a filegroup to a point in time

  • January 28, 2016 at 7:05 am

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    dough-378918 (1/28/2016)

    From a backup/restore perspective then, especially to try to restore a portion of a system to a certain point-in-time, is there

    any reason to use Filegroups?

    No. If you're required to be able to restore a subset of the data to an earlier point in time, you need separate databases, not multiple filegroups.

    Filegroups have lots of uses w.r.t. backup/restore, but your requirement is not one of them.

    Gail Shaw
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