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  • kevinsql7 (9/3/2009)


    Sarabpreet,

    Thanks for your response. I have two questions; what do you mean when you say:

    1. Disable the log backup on prod.

    My DB size is around 800 GBs and our Diff. backup takes 2-3hrs time to complete that too with the help of Red-Gate, now during this time our log backup has to wait and just to avoid this i disable the job. (I think if any backup is running on a DB you can't run any other backup on the same DB)

    I am taking a nightly full database backup and log file backup even though we are not using the log backups to retore. So, basically, I have a full database backup.

    So in your case you don't have to worry about this.

    Also, what do you mean when you say to restore the database using a query.

    6. Restore the DB using a predefined query since the name of the backup file is still pre-defined.

    Steve is right, i was refering to RESTORE Command....My mistake:rolleyes:

    Regards,
    Sarabpreet Singh 😎
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