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dujiaojing0
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Posted - 06/21/2011 :  04:00:37  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi,

I came across this error " The file *.mdf is missing and needs to restore" .can anyone provide me proper solution to come out of this situation? Thanks in advance.

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raghuveer125
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India
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Posted - 06/21/2011 :  05:00:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
YOu try to take log backup and next you need to restore from your backups till your last log backup.

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dujiaojing0
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Posted - 06/22/2011 :  02:28:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
tks, raqhuveer125
does such kind of action would lead to data lose?
Bcz the situation is very normal before the erro message came out, and i didn't backup for 2 days.

Thanks.

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raghuveer125
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Posted - 06/22/2011 :  02:44:07  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I need to ask some question first.

Is that full backup you took 2 days back?

Is your database in full recovery mode?

Have you taken any diff or transactional backup after taking last full backup?

Is it possible to take log backup of your database now?





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GilaMonster
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Posted - 06/22/2011 :  14:06:05  Show Profile  Visit GilaMonster's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Recovery model?
Log backups?

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dujiaojing0
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Posted - 06/23/2011 :  00:04:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by raghuveer125

I need to ask some question first.

Is that full backup you took 2 days back?

Is your database in full recovery mode?

Have you taken any diff or transactional backup after taking last full backup?

Is it possible to take log backup of your database now?





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for ur questions:
1.yes, it is full backup.
2.yes, in full mode
3.no..i didn't do that
4.I guess not..

tks, my friend.

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raghuveer125
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Posted - 06/23/2011 :  01:53:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You have only hope that you first try to take log backup
if you can able to take log backup
Then restore your latest full backup in norecovery and your log backup with recovery.

if you can't able to take log bakup
Then restore you latest full backup with recovery(Note:But if you restore this only full backup then you wont get any data stored after you full bakup)

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GilaMonster
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Posted - 06/23/2011 :  02:48:50  Show Profile  Visit GilaMonster's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Try a tail-log backup. A regular log backup will fail (the msd is missing)

backup log .. no_truncate

REstore the full with NORECOVERY, restore the log backup

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dujiaojing0
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Posted - 06/24/2011 :  02:34:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by raghuveer125

You have only hope that you first try to take log backup
if you can able to take log backup
Then restore your latest full backup in norecovery and your log backup with recovery.

if you can't able to take log bakup
Then restore you latest full backup with recovery(Note:But if you restore this only full backup then you wont get any data stored after you full bakup)

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Thanks raghuveer125. I guess I could only do the latest full backup recovery. Really appreciate for your help.

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dujiaojing0
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Posted - 06/24/2011 :  02:37:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by GilaMonster

Try a tail-log backup. A regular log backup will fail (the msd is missing)

backup log .. no_truncate

REstore the full with NORECOVERY, restore the log backup

--
Gail Shaw
SQL Server MVP

Thanks for your answer, GilaMonster. Really appreciate.

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