Restore Fails

  • Hi ALL,

    I am restoring from a backup file. Till last week sunday it was working fine. Today it is failing.

    My database has gone in loading state.

    I get this error :

    Server : Msg 3241, Level 16, State 37, Line 1

    The media famly on device is incorrectly formed.SQL server cannot process this media family.

    I tried restore verifyonly, but still getting the same error.

    Please advice how can I restore my database.

    --Kishore

     

     

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  • I would drop the media set name re-create another backup job, and try to restore from the new backup

  • How was the backup done?

    Did you backup to disk first and then copy the backup to tape? If so, you need to reverse the order, you won't be able to restore directly from the tape.

    Did you copy the .mdf and .ldf files to tape? If so, you can't restore them. You need to attach them. However, you can't do this if you didn't originally detach the database.

    -SQLBill

  • What kind of backup is this? Is it a FULL backup?

    -SQLBill

  • When you perform a backup or restore operation and the transaction log is greater than four gigabytes (or 2^32 bytes), the LogMgr::ValidateBackedupBlock method may cause the following error when it computes the offset of the log block in the physical file:

    pls see ...

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297104/EN-US/

  • When you perform a backup or restore operation and the transaction log is greater than four gigabytes (or 2^32 bytes), the LogMgr::ValidateBackedupBlock method may cause the following error when it computes the offset of the log block in the physical file:

    pls see ...

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297104/EN-US/

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