• ps (12/14/2008)


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    My questions are:-

    1. how to control the number of backup sets that can be written in a file using the device i created above( in above example 2 backups are there and i can add more).

    2. Since there are multiple backups in that file, how can i restore the 2nd backup using t-sql

    I was able to read the backup details by restoring the header of the backup file.

    Restore headeronly from DailyActivity_Full_Backup

    The column Position has value 1 and 2. Can it be used during restoration?

    1) you cannot restrict the number of backups written to a backup file.

    (you can only "clear" the file using WITH INIT)

    2) Check out RESTORE in BOL.

    restore database yourdb

    from yourdevice

    with file=2

    ...

    Johan

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