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thecoffeeguy
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Posted - 10/08/2008 :  14:09:27  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
hello everyone.
Have a question on how to restore a database to a different database.

I have a full backup of a test database in my environment.
I want to take that backup and basically, restore it to a different database instance on the same server? Make sense?

So if the first DB is called "Mickey", I want to create a new database instance on the same server as "Mickey" and call that new instance "Daffy".

Then, i want to take the full backup of "Mickey" and restore it into "Daffy".

Is it possible to do this?
Thanks.

Jason

tkizer
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Posted - 10/08/2008 :  14:21:22  Show Profile  Visit tkizer's Homepage  Reply with Quote
RESTORE DATABASE Daffy
FROM DISK = 'E:\Backup\Mickey.bak'
WITH REPLACE, MOVE 'Mickey_Data' TO 'E:\Data\Daffy_Data.mdf', MOVE 'Mickey_Log' TO 'E:\Data\Daffy_Log.ldf'

You'll need to make the appropriate changes to the above code. You can also do this through the restore GUI by modifying the option page.

Tara Kizer
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sodeep
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Posted - 10/08/2008 :  14:23:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
What is your requirement? Didn't get what you meant?
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thecoffeeguy
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Posted - 10/08/2008 :  14:23:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by tkizer

RESTORE DATABASE Daffy
FROM DISK = 'E:\Backup\Mickey.bak'
WITH REPLACE, MOVE 'Mickey_Data' TO 'E:\Data\Daffy_Data.mdf', MOVE 'Mickey_Log' TO 'E:\Data\Daffy_Log.ldf'

You'll need to make the appropriate changes to the above code. You can also do this through the restore GUI by modifying the option page.

Tara Kizer
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server System - SQL Server
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/

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Thanks Tara. I will give that a shot and report my results.
Cheers,

Jason
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systemaddictshock
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Posted - 02/04/2010 :  16:49:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The GUI method worked for me! It was pretty easy too!
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Kristen
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Posted - 02/05/2010 :  03:50:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I also like to change the (internal) logical names of the database - otherwise they keep the name of the original

ALTER DATABASE MyDatabaseName 
		MODIFY FILE (NAME = 'OrigDatabase_Data', NEWNAME = 'MyDatabaseName_data')
GO
ALTER DATABASE MyDatabaseName 
		MODIFY FILE (NAME = 'OrigDatabase_Log', NEWNAME = 'MyDatabaseName_log')
GO

(but you will have to find out what the original names were)
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