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Chapter 6: Log Restores
Right-click on DatabaseForLogBackups in the object explorer and select Tasks |
Restore | Database… to begin the restore process and you'll see the Restore Database
screen, which we examined in detail in Chapter 4.
This time, rather than restore directly over an existing database, we'll restore to a new
database, basically a copy of the existing DatabaseForLogBackups but as it existed
at the end of the first log backup. So, in the To database: section, enter a new database
name, such as DatabaseForLogBackups_RestoreCopy.
In the Source for restore section of the screen, you should see that the required backup
files are auto-populated (SQL Server can interrogate the msdb database for the backup
history). This will only be the case if all the backup files are in their original location (C:\
SQLBackups\Chapter5, if you followed through the examples). Therefore, as configured
in Figure 6-3, our new copy database would be restored to the end of the second log
backup, in a single restore operation. Alternatively, by simply deselecting the second log
file, we could restore the database to the end of the first log file.
Figure 6-3: Initial Restore Database screen for DatabaseForLogBackups.
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