How can I restore the db successfully

I'm a new user to SQL Server.
I use the Restore Database function in the Entreprise Manager to restore a database. But I have no idea about why it prompt error when I click OK and say :
Cannot find file ID 2 on device c:\Program File\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\BACKUP\abc'. RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
On the other hand, if I have a backup database file from someone, how can I restore it in the normal way.
1st Step: New a Database (no change to the setting)
2nd Step: Right click DB->Restore Database-> but how can I choose the backup database file that someone give me.?
Best regards,
Grace
Hi,
How can I choose the backup database file that someone give me.?
In the Restore databaase window -- Select the option button "From Device" ,
Click the "Select Device" -- Click "Add"
and in the file name get the .BAK file from the directory and click "OK".
There you select Backup Number "View contents" . This
will show you all the files associated with the backup file.
If you have mutiple files select the one you require and click "OK" to
restore.
Cannot find file ID 2 on device c: ?
I feel that this Backup is taken in mutiple files (Devices) and you have
only one file. In that case you cant restore till u get the other file.
Thanks
Hari
MCDBA
"Grace" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:17BBF6CC-AC73-44FE-A31D-AE0848ED7B83@.microsoft.com...
> I'm a new user to SQL Server.
> I use the Restore Database function in the Entreprise Manager to restore a
database. But I have no idea about why it prompt error when I click OK and
say :
> Cannot find file ID 2 on device c:\Program File\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL\BACKUP\abc'. RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
> On the other hand, if I have a backup database file from someone, how can
I restore it in the normal way.
> 1st Step: New a Database (no change to the setting)
> 2nd Step: Right click DB->Restore Database-> but how can I choose the
backup database file that someone give me.?
> Best regards,
> Grace
|||Grace,
The restore dialog in EM can use the backup history produced when you took the backup. But that doesn't
necessarily reflect what you actually have on the backup files. In this case, it seems like the backup history
say that there should be at least two backups on the backup file, and there isn't. Perhaps the backup file
doesn't exist at all...
If you want to restore a backup for a database which doesn't exists, *do not* create the database first. If
you do, you will most probably not create it with the same file structure as you had when you took the backup.
Let the restore process create the database for you. Just enter the restore dialog, type in the database name,
and select "from device". Here you can specify the backup file from which you want to do the restore.
I strongly suggest you read about how backup and restore work in Books Online, without that knowledge, you
might find above a bit difficult to understand. Also, I find it easier to work with the BACKUP and RESTORE
commands from Query Analyzer instead of using a GUI like EM. At least until you have good understanding about
the architecture of backup and restore and then understand more of how it work and what EM does when you
select options in the GUI. Just my opinion, that is...
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
"Grace" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:17BBF6CC-AC73-44FE-A31D-AE0848ED7B83@.microsoft.com...
> I'm a new user to SQL Server.
> I use the Restore Database function in the Entreprise Manager to restore a database. But I have no idea
about why it prompt error when I click OK and say :
> Cannot find file ID 2 on device c:\Program File\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\BACKUP\abc'. RESTORE DATABASE
is terminating abnormally.
> On the other hand, if I have a backup database file from someone, how can I restore it in the normal way.
> 1st Step: New a Database (no change to the setting)
> 2nd Step: Right click DB->Restore Database-> but how can I choose the backup database file that someone give
me.?
> Best regards,
> Grace
|||You are trying to restore from database, which uses the history of backups. The history path is different from the path of the file on the disk you are trying to restore from.
To restore from the file you have, you should click the bullet marked device (change from database) and browse to the actual file system file you are trying to restore the database to(via select devices... then Add...button).
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