Paul,

Backup History doesn't affect things at all, which sounds like what you want. I frequently use the routines to restore production to qa or development environments.

I'm not sure what you mean by "I tried moving a backup.bak file from another server into the same folder and it didn't pick it up." If you fully specify the filename to use, it should find the file in question.

Can you post the command you used to do the restore?

Vince