Posted by Utahduck on 04/11/07 21:39

I posted this to another group but I must not be subscribed as nothing
appeared. Sooo....

I've backed up a databse with the following command:

BACKUP DATABASE Thomasville
FILEGROUP = 'PRIMARY'
TO DISK = 'D:\SQLBackups\2 - Monday\Full-Thomasville-
PRIMARY-070409-1528h.bak'
WITH FORMAT,
Password = 'p@$$w0rd'

I back up using Filegroups because I dont' want to back up the large,
static ones on a regular basis. This backup worked just fine. When I
try to restore it I run:

RESTORE DATABASE Thomas
FILEGROUP = 'PRIMARY'
FROM DISK = 'D:\SQLBackups\2 - Monday\Full-Thomasville-
PRIMARY-070409-1528h.bak'
WITH PARTIAL,
PASSWORD = 'p@$$w0rd',
MOVE 'Thomasville_Data' TO 'd:\SQLServerData\MSSQL\data
\Thomasville_Data_Thomas.MDF',
MOVE 'Thomasville_Log' TO 'd:\SQLServerData\MSSQL\data
\Thomasville_Log_Thomas.LDF',
NORECOVERY

I get this:

Server: Msg 3135, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
The backup set in file 'D:\SQLBackups\2 - Monday\Full-Thomasville-
PRIMARY-070409-1528h.bak' was created by BACKUP DATABASE...FILE=<name>
and cannot be used for this restore operation.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.


Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? Except for what applies to my
backup this is copied character for character from some Microsoft BOL.

Please help.

Thanks,
Utah

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