Restore last backup to a different server/database

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Finds the last available backup for a specified database (local or remote server), then restores the backup onto an existing database on the local server.
The script will kill all non-system processes in the destination database to allow the script to be scheduled at night regardless is anyone is still connected.
The logical and physical names are preserved incase of non-standard data and log file suffixes.

I wrote this script as the developers I work with are constantly asking for copies of live databases onto testing servers.

It has been tested on multiple servers in my environment.
The source server must be a linked server to the current server to allow the script to find the last backup details.
The script also relies on the standard administrative shares to access the backupfile, so the login context must have administrative access to the source server.

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