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  • December 13, 2012 at 11:03 am

    #1568416

    You only ever need to restore the last differential backup. They're differentials, not incrementals. Restore the full backup, the last differential then, if you're restoring log backups as well, all log backups since that last diff

    Gail Shaw
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