James Mace (8/1/2013)My question is, when the backup set list is not populated, is there a way to populate it or do I have to run my restore manually from script?
Thank you in advance,
Jim
Hello Jim,
if not populated, yes, you have to restore manually.
The backup history is stored in msdb database, not in the backup files itself. This means, when creating your image, get sure you include the msdb-database.
If you don't want to overwrite the msd-database on the target server you can read out the backup history from the msdb database to get all the information you need for restoring your database.
Have a look at the system tables of the msdb database. Find details of it here.