Script to automatically restore needed log-backups

By Additional Articles, 2004/09/08

Given a backupfile with a lot of sequential log-backups, this script automatically restores just those backups out of the file, which are necessary to bring the database up to a given timelag relating to the original database.
Params are path to backupfile, name of the db to restore to, timelag in minutes.

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