Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 01/10/07 23:27

jai (dbasybase@gmail.com) writes:
> I need to restore a database which is 400 GB plus. Usually a normal
> restore from a backup file takes about 40 minutes. I have a database
> Company on a server A. I need to use the backup of database company to
> restore as company1 on the same box. At the end, company and company1
> would reside on the same box. Is there any way to do it faster than a
> normal restore???

Are you on SQL 2000? I'm afraid not. Rather it will take longer time,
since the 400 GB for the new database needs to be initialised.



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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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