mpa (3/22/2010)
As someone who measures five times, cuts once, I can certainly see the usefulness in this idea. It would be nice if there was an option to manually make the "switch" after verifying that everything went OK, or just make it do it automagically when the restore is done, though I'm not entirely sure how this would be accomplished.
You can also re-name the existing db (users would need to be bounced off in any case before the restore), then restore the db. If anything goes wrong, you still have the original, or you can delete it when you are happy.
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