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  • steps to generate the automated process:

    - manually go througt the RESTORE GUI and generate a script for the complete restore command

    - change the name of the backupfile in the generated RESTORE script to a variable

    - wrap the code in a stored procedure with a required variable for the backupfile

    - query the MSDB backup tables (backupset, backupmediaset, etc.) to get the name of the most recent backup

    - call the stored procedure using the value for the backupfile from the MSDB tables

    - put code from the above step into a nightly job

    It's probably a bit more compex then Andrew mentioned, but it's not that hard either 😉

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