Tava (11/19/2012)
Bob Griffin (11/19/2012)
Specifically, the user that the sql database server is running as has to have permissions to read the backup file. If possible, browse to the bak file as the sql server user. Another option is to copy the bak file directly onto the machine that you are restoring to.It's a different domain though, this would make a difference when authenticating wouldnt it?
If you had full domain trusts in place authentication would be taken care of at the domain level, if there is no trust in place between the two domain then yes authentication would fail.
Now you would be able to map a drive to the server using a login local to the source domain and restore the database. I know I have done it the other way round where there wasn't a domain in place and I needed to backup the database to a different server. Just need to find the script I used to do it.