Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 08/18/06 07:16

TG (spam@spam.com) writes:
> I see - so you are saying that the transaction log will have to be
> backed up in order to restore to a point in time, I was under the
> impression that the transaction log was somewhat like an online redo log
> , but I see that MSSQL handles this somewhat differently. I'll check out
> the link you posted and do some more reading up!

Yes, you can never restore from the transaction log itself, you must restore
from a backup of the transaction log.

You can wait until the disaster hits to backup the log, though, but I would
not recommend that.


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