March 24, 2014 at 5:16 pm
I have a concern. I take a backup at 8pm and differential backups at 10pm and 12am. I then plan to restore the full backup to another server followed by the differentials once they complete. When I restore the differential backup, do I have restore the full back plus the differential at 10pm and then the full backup and the differential at 12am? Or, since I restored the full backup at 8pm, just apply the differentials at 10 and 12?
Thank you
March 25, 2014 at 2:39 am
You restore the full backup from 8am and the differential from 12. They're differential backups, not incremental.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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March 25, 2014 at 3:38 am
You need to restore FULL backup and latest DIFFERENTIAL backup. DIFFERENTIAL backup is cosolidated backup and capture all the pages changed since FULL backup.
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