Point in time recovery

  • Had to do a point in time recovery on a client site,

    had a full backup of last night, and then one transaction log backup for yesterday night and one for today,but before the transaction log is backed up(today morning), the sql server services were restarted by them and when i tried to do a point in time recovery, it was throwing an error.

    I was trying to restore it as a new database.

    Does the point in time can not be done if there is a restart of services, or I cannot restore it to a new db.

    Thanks for the help.

  • Can you post the restore commands you were using? I have done point in time restores to a new database.

  • What was the error it was giving?

    Gail Shaw
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  • I was doing it with SSMS and the error was invalid value for STOPAT, something like that.

    The issue is resolved now, as we have found the actual reason for the application to freeze and resolved it.

  • I missed it, the client was on SQL2000.

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