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Restore from Multiple Files

  • January 11, 2011 at 10:56 am

    #230022

    Hello Everyone

    I am in the planning stages of overwriting a database with a backup from another environment.

    I took the backup by splitting the files because they were too large to copy across the network easily. I split them into 10 different files.

    I am wanting to restore the database and allow the restore to overwrite the existing database, of the same name. How can I write the sql statement to do this? I don't believe I have ever had to do a restore this way.

    Thanks in advance

    Andrew SQLDBA

  • January 11, 2011 at 11:25 am

    #1272006

    How did you split the backup files ?

    Can you post your actual backup statement ?

    If you used

    BACKUP DATABASE AdventureWorks

    TO DISK='X:\SQLServerBackups\AdventureWorks1.bak',

    DISK='Y:\SQLServerBackups\AdventureWorks2.bak',

    DISK='Z:\SQLServerBackups\AdventureWorks3.bak'

    I would try this on a test system

    RESTORE DATABASE MyDatabase

    DISK='X:\SQLServerBackups\AdventureWorks1.bak',

    DISK='Y:\SQLServerBackups\AdventureWorks2.bak',

    DISK='Z:\SQLServerBackups\AdventureWorks3.bak'

    WITH

    NORECOVERY;

    Keep in mind you can zip/7zip/ another compress tool your bak files to minimize copy network overhead.

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  • January 11, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    #1272035

    Sorry, that did not work.

    Andrew SQLDBA

  • January 11, 2011 at 1:03 pm

    #1272051

    Do you have to write script, can you just add the files in the GUI and do it that way?

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  • January 11, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    #1272081

    I cannot add more than on data file that way.

    Besides that, I try to not use the GUI

    Andrew SQLDBA

  • January 11, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    #1272082

    AndrewSQLDBA (1/11/2011)

    Sorry, that did not work.

    Can you be a bit more specific? Did it throw an error and if so what error? Something else?

    Can you post the backup command that you ran?

    Gail Shaw
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  • January 11, 2011 at 2:51 pm

    #1272110

    Thank You Gila

    I found my mistake

    So silly, I am totally embarrassed

    Andrew SQLDBA

  • January 12, 2011 at 12:36 am

    #1272209

    A silly mistake happens to all of us every once in a while and with some even more frequent 😉

    Please provide the feedback on the backup creation script and the final restore that solved your problem.

    Johan

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    - How to post data/code to get the best help[/url]

    - How to prevent a sore throat after hours of presenting ppt

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