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Automatically Restore Backup Files for SQL 2005

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Lester Policarpio

Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 5:58 PM

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Lester Policarpio

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Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 2:49 AM

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Tried this script on SQL 2008, added a few columns and it worked like a charm. We will be saving a lot of time.:D

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Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 6:59 PM

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I'm glad it worked for sql version 2008. The only difference is the schema of the tables in sql 2000, 2005 and 2008 :)

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Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 3:30 AM

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We braught in the following on a few parts to ensure that we limit the possiblilty duplicates of the .mdf, .ndf and .ldf physical names and database names are not used.

Have you considered something like that?

We have quite a few environments and this helped to set them apart.

DECLARE @RestoreFrom varchar(20)
SET @RestoreFrom = '_ServerName'

SET @restoredb = 'RESTORE DATABASE '+(select top 1 DatabaseName+@RestoreFrom from header_lester)

UPDATE migration_lester SET physicalname = left(Physicalname,charindex('.',Physicalname)-1)+ @RestoreFrom + Right(Physicalname,4)

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Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:38 AM

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Edited the listing of the path for the location of the .bak files to use

SET @pathension = 'dir /OD /s /b '+@Path+'*.'+@Extension

Allowing for all .bak files in subdirectories and a shorter directory listing format. Just easier when all my .bak files were sitting in their own folders :)

Also had to remove the +@path in front of +@migrate in the 'Restoreheaderonly' statement as I was getting multiple '///' when the .bak file location was on the network.

Currently using it to restore 37 databases though, so it works like a charm!

Good job...

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Lester Policarpio

Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 8:32 PM

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Glad it works Smile

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Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:56 AM

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I have a problem with running this script, it returns this error message:
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Msg 3201, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Cannot open backup device 'C:\folder\abase1.bak'. Operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.).
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally.
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I know it can't find abase1.bak because the real physical filename is database1.bak. Please, I'm not very good with SQL but I do have 150+ databases i want to import into MS SQL. Can anyone tell me where i need to look in the script to fix this up?

Thanks in advance for all helpful hints / solutions.

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