Partial backup and FILELISTONLY

  • After backing up few read-only filegroups by:

    backup database <db>

    filegroup='<fg1>',

    filegroup='<fg2>'

    to disk='<path>'

    restore filelistonly is giving me a list of every single filegroup in the db, not just those two.

    Am I missing something?

    Any thoughts?

  • All the files are listed but there is a column "IsPresent" to indicate whether a particular file is actually included in the backup set.

    I think it needs all the files in order to set up the initial database restore properly, even if you haven't actually restored all of the files/filegroups yet.

  • Thanks, I completely missed it...

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