Issue is resolved.

Unknown to me, a colleague took an adhoc transaction log backup on Monday and saved it to a different location to where the transaction logs are stored. ...

Thanks both. I tried the command against the master database again (tried earlier but got an error). It allowed me to apply the log before the one that it's...

Do you still need to use the recovery options on a standby database? Is the status not always in a restore state?

I tried the restore log with norecovery against...

Thank you Mani, I'll give that a try. 🙂

How do you apply the logs manually in SQL Server 2005