[dba-SQLServer]Restoring SQL Backups

Using EM

 From the Main Menu

1) TOOLS > RESTORE DATABASE

2) In the Restore as Database drop down type in the name of your 
database then select the option "From Device"

3) Click the "Select Devices" button

4) Click the Add button

5) Click the "..." to go and look for the drive and path and finally the 
backup file.

6, 7, 8) Click OK (x3), until you return to the Restore Database 
"window" and click on the Options Tab

9) Click the "Force Restore over existing database (this is a just in 
case reason).  and in the listbox you'll notice two columns Logical File 
Name and Move to Physical File Name.

10) If the original drive is no longer available or you want to store 
the data and log files somewhere else, then just click and "edit" the 
locations of the files...


done :D




John Colby wrote:

> If and when I get SQL Server running again (I'm about to re-install it after
> going back to Win2KSP3), how do I get the backup files back in to SQL
> Server.  It looks like SQL Server keeps the location and names of the files
> inside the database or something.  IOW, there's no "browse for file"
> function that I can find.  I have the data out in files on my disk (with NO
> extension!!!) so I need SQL Server to ask me where to go to find these
> things, display a list of the backup files, and then get the data back into
> a new database.
> 
> Alternately, assuming my last failed installed didn't trash it, I need the
> INSTALL to find and use the existing database that still exists on another
> directory out on my D: drive.
> 
> Someone please tell me I haven't lost all my billing data.  I'm beginning to
> panic here.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com



-- 
-Francisco