Restore from network drive

  • Hi All,

    i have a backup on the network drive. and i want to restore it on my local server.....but the problam is that on time of restoration i am not able to see network drive.....

    So my Question is can i restore backup from network drive????

    and how can we do that...???

  • You could copy the backup file to your local machine then perform a restore.

    And if that's not possible then check to make sure the SQL Server service account has access to the network share where the backup file is.

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  • thanks abu,

    i know that we can move backup to local disk.but this thing i do not want to do.....

    i want to know can we restore from network drive and how ???????

    if u know the way please explain in detail.

  • Are you using the UNC path or where you mapping a drive?

  • Please check to make sure that the SQL Server service account has at least read permissions on the network share?

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    It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
    David Edwards - Media lens[/url]

    Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
    Howard Zinn

  • abu ..no they are not having that

  • anthony ....yes i m using UNC path

  • "i want to know can we restore from network drive and how ???????"

    The answer is yes, check this out http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1126/sql-server-backup-and-restore-to-network-drive/

    You need to first see if you can access the shared drive from your local PC, and that there is no security problem

    use: restore dbname from disk ='\\servername\$shareddrive\...path.bak

  • If using UNC path, then you need to ensure that the SQL service accounts have at-least read access to the network share to be able to access the file.

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