PARTIAL SQL Server RESTORE's

Please..
Can someone confirm that with a PARTIAL FILEGROUP SQL Server RESTORE you
have to have a Full Database Backup (containing all the Filegroups including
the PRIMARY) before you can do a PARTIAL filegroup RESTORE.
Even if you have a performed a filegroup Backup which contains the PRIMARY
filegroup and all the other filegroups then it will not work and you get the
error message:
Server: Msg 3135, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
"was created by BACKUP DATABASE...FILE=<name> and cannot be used for this
restore operation."
All the examples I have seen on the net use a FULL Database backup as a
starting point and I have seen the following posting which kind of confirms
my suspisions from someone with a microsoft.com email address
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Furtheremore, all the documentation in BOL is very very murky on this
particular subject area:
Partial Database Restore Operations
"Partial restore operations work with database filegroups. The primary
filegroup is always restored, along with the files that you specify and
their corresponding filegroups. The result is a subset of the database.
Filegroups that are not restored are marked as offline and are not
accessible.
Partial restore operations are accomplished with the PARTIAL clause of the
RESTORE statement. You can also use the PARTIAL option when restoring a full
database backup. Partial database restore of file backups is not supported."
What it says is "Partial database restore of file backups is not supported"
I think it should ALSO say "Partial database restore of filegroup and file
backups is not supported"
Many Thanks
Paul McMillanPaul,
I agree with your points, and this is how I understand that things work as w
ell. Also, I just ran a test,
which also confirms it (see script at below, adapted from example in BOL). D
id you perform the Books Online
feedback on this (the envelope top left in the right pane)?
USE master
GO
DROP DATABASE mywind_part
GO
DROP DATABASE mywind
GO
CREATE DATABASE mywind
GO
ALTER DATABASE mywind ADD FILEGROUP new_customers
ALTER DATABASE mywind ADD FILEGROUP sales
GO
ALTER DATABASE mywind ADD FILE
(NAME='mywind_data_1',
FILENAME='c:\mw.dat1')
TO FILEGROUP new_customers
ALTER DATABASE mywind
ADD FILE
(NAME='mywind_data_2',
FILENAME='c:\mw.dat2')
TO FILEGROUP sales
GO
CREATE TABLE mywind..t2 (id int) ON sales
-- A full database backup is performed.
-- Then the t1 table is created on new_customers.
-- The transaction log is backed up:
BACKUP DATABASE mywind
filegroup = 'sales', filegroup='primary', filegroup = 'new_customers'
TO DISK ='c:\mywind.dmp'
WITH INIT
GO
USE mywind
GO
CREATE TABLE t1 (id int) ON new_customers
GO
BACKUP LOG mywind TO DISK='c:\mywind.dmp'
WITH NOINIT
GO
-- At some point, it becomes necessary to restore the t2 table
-- on the sales filegroup. RESTORE FILELISTONLY lists the database
-- files and the filegroups in which they reside.
-- RESTORE HEADERONLY lists the contents of the backup medium:
-- RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK='c:\mywind.dmp'
-- GO
-- RESTORE HEADERONLY FROM DISK='c:\mywind.dmp'
-- GO
-- The RESTORE DATABASE statement restores the database under a different na
me
-- and the sales filegroup using the WITH PARTIAL and NORECOVERY options.
-- In addition, the primary file and filegroup (mywind), the log (mywind_log
),
-- and all files in the restored filegroup (in this example, mywind_data_2 i
s the
-- only file in sales) are moved to a new location. The log is then recover
ed:
RESTORE DATABASE mywind_part
FILEGROUP = 'sales'
FROM DISK='c:\mywind.dmp'
WITH FILE=1,RECOVERY,PARTIAL,
-- WITH FILE=1,NORECOVERY,PARTIAL,
MOVE 'mywind' TO 'c:\mw2.pri',
MOVE 'mywind_log' TO 'c:\mw2.log',
MOVE 'mywind_data_2' TO 'c:\mw2.dat2'
GO
-- RESTORE LOG mywind_part
-- FROM DISK = 'c:\mywind.dmp'
-- WITH FILE = 2,RECOVERY
-- GO
--Notice that t2 is accessible after the partial restore operation.
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mywind_part..t2
--Notice that t1 is not accessible after the partial log restore operation.
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mywind_part..t1
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
"Paul McMillan" <paul.mcmillan@.email4u.com> wrote in message news:%23xZPXcXTEHA.2716@.tk2msft
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> Please..
> Can someone confirm that with a PARTIAL FILEGROUP SQL Server RESTORE you
> have to have a Full Database Backup (containing all the Filegroups includi
ng
> the PRIMARY) before you can do a PARTIAL filegroup RESTORE.
> Even if you have a performed a filegroup Backup which contains the PRIMARY
> filegroup and all the other filegroups then it will not work and you get t
he
> error message:
> Server: Msg 3135, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
> "was created by BACKUP DATABASE...FILE=<name> and cannot be used for this
> restore operation."
>
> All the examples I have seen on the net use a FULL Database backup as a
> starting point and I have seen the following posting which kind of confirm
s
> my suspisions from someone with a microsoft.com email address
>
&start=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF
-8&selm=eJxAxlwzCHA.1576%40TK2MSFTNGP12&rnum=25" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/groups? q=...FTNGP12&rnum=25
> Furtheremore, all the documentation in BOL is very very murky on this
> particular subject area:
> Partial Database Restore Operations
> "Partial restore operations work with database filegroups. The primary
> filegroup is always restored, along with the files that you specify and
> their corresponding filegroups. The result is a subset of the database.
> Filegroups that are not restored are marked as offline and are not
> accessible.
> Partial restore operations are accomplished with the PARTIAL clause of the
> RESTORE statement. You can also use the PARTIAL option when restoring a fu
ll
> database backup. Partial database restore of file backups is not supported
."
> What it says is "Partial database restore of file backups is not supported
"
> I think it should ALSO say "Partial database restore of filegroup and file
> backups is not supported"
> Many Thanks
> Paul McMillan
>|||Tibor
Thanks - As you get the same, it proves I am not going mad and I tried your
code with the same results. So I believe the documentation is a bit
misleading in this area...
Re: Did you perform the Books Online feedback on this (the envelope top left
in the right pane)?
No - But I have now! - outlining what I believe is unclear documentation.
Thanks again
Paul