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Default Re: Point in time recovery - 01-26-2008 , 03:10 AM






.... but to make it perfectly clear: for the entire database. There's no "restore only these table
to this point in time" functionality in SQL Server.

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"Russell Fields" <russellfields (AT) nomail (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:
Smith,

Yes, that will work.

RLF

"Smith" <naissani (AT) hotmail (DOT) co> wrote in message
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thanks but if we first restore full backup with norecovery and then differential backup with
norecovery and then log backup with recovery with StopAt option, will that give point in time
recovery?

"Sean McCown" <SeanMcCown (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote in message
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That's exactly what that means.
So just to state it to be clear... you have to use log backups to have point
in time recovery. You also have to be in full recovery mode. Bulk-logged
won't give you point in time.

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"Smith" wrote:

That means I can't differential backup when I am trying to do point in time
recovery?

"Sean McCown" <SeanMcCown (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote in message
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You are correct. You lost STOPAT with diffs.

Don't forget to mark the issue as resolved if you got your answer.
thx.
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"Smith" wrote:

Thanks.. that means differential backup doesn't help me in this scanario?

Thanks

"Sean McCown" <SeanMcCown (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote in message
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In order to do a point in time recovery, you'll need to use the STOPAT
command.
Here's an example I pulled out of BOL:

RESTORE DATABASE AdventureWorks
FROM AdventureWorksBackups
WITH NORECOVERY;

RESTORE LOG AdventureWorks
FROM AdventureWorksBackups
WITH RECOVERY, STOPAT = 'Apr 15, 2020 12:00 AM';


If you have several logs before the last one that you run with
recovery,
just do them with norecovery like you did the full backup. So if you
had
previous logs to restore before you get to the one you want to stop at
just
say:

RESTORE LOG AdventureWorks FROM AdventureWorksBackups with NORECOVERY

You can replace that device name with a physical path if you need to so
you
would also do this if you had a physical path to the file:

RESTORE LOG AdventureWorks FROM disk='c:\mylog.trn' with NORECOVERY

It's worth it to mention that you lose the STOPAT functionality if
you're
not in full recovery mode.

And as Tibor said, you can only recovery to one point in time. So if
you
need 2 separate times, you'll have to do 2 restores and merge them
manually
at the table level.


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"Smith" wrote:

Can you tell me the step? how I can achieve this.

Thanks
"Tibor Karaszi" <tibor_please.no.email_karaszi (AT) hotmail (DOT) nomail.com
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Restore will not let you get an inconsistent views of a database.
But
that
I mean that it won't allow for a restore where some objects are from
one
point in time and other objects are from another point in time. You
can
restore up to 10:05 into a new database name and move the desired
data
(TEST2) from there into the production database.

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"Smith" <naissani (AT) hotmail (DOT) co> wrote in message
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Hi Professionals,

Following are my queries and I want to recover the table (Test2)
with
data and recover all the test1 data. I would appreciate if you can
let
me
know the commands.


use eZSale
go
create table TEST1 (ID INT, NAME VARCHAR(50))
create table TEST2(ID INT, NAME VARCHAR(50))

--Time:10:01
BACKUP DATABASE eZSale to disk = 'C:\TEMP\test_FullDb.BAK'

--Time:10:02
INSERT INTO TEST1 SELECT 1, 'AFTER FULL BACKUP'
INSERT INTO TEST2 SELECT 1, 'AFTER FULL BACKUP'

--Time:10:03
BACKUP LOG eZsale to disk = 'c:\Temp\test_Logbk.BAK'

--Time: 10:04
INSERT INTO TEST1 SELECT 2, 'AFTER LOG BACKUP'
INSERT INTO TEST2 SELECT 2, 'AFTER LOG BACKUP'
INSERT INTO TEST2 SELECT 3, 'AFTER LOG BACKUP..SECOND ENTRY'

--Time: 10:05
DROP TABLE TEST2

--Time: 10:06
BACKUP DATABASE eZSale to disk = 'C:\TEMP\test_DiffDb.BAK' with
differential

--Time: 10:07
INSERT INTO TEST1 SELECT 4, 'AFTER DIFFERNTIAL BACKUP'
INSERT INTO TEST1 SELECT 5, 'AFTER DIFFERNTIAL BACKUP..SECOND
ENTRY'









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