How Restore defunct filegroups from backup?

• ricardo_chicas

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  January 25, 2019 at 1:39 pm

  #382645

  Hello
  I have a sql server 2012 instance with a large database, it has 2 defunct file groups, which are not empty
  If i create a backup of the database and restore it, the defunct file groups are not being extracted and the database is not mounted since it complains about having missing files

  is there a way to extract those files from the backup?

  any other option?

  thanks in advance

• Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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  January 28, 2019 at 9:42 am

  #2020303

  What are defunct filegroups? I'm not sure what you're doing or what the set up is currently.