newbie help--restore to point in time

I have a customer who's cart has been deleting orders incorrectly. I
backed up and restored the database from the remote server to my local.
Would like to restore to point in time before the delete operation.
>From various sources this is the script I'm using:
BACKUP LOG plebesummercom
TO disk= 'C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\butrans\translog.bak'
WITH NORECOVERY, No_truncate
Go
RESTORE DATABASE plebesummercom
FROM disk= 'C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\dbbu080106\8_1_2006_5_30_
42_PM.bak'
WITH NORECOVERY;
GO
RESTORE LOG [plebesummercom]
FROM DISK = N'C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\butrans\translog.bak'
WITH FILE = 1, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10, STOPAT = N'07/16/2006
11:13:04'
GO
Ok, no errrors are thrown, but when I select from a table, I'm still
finding orders with dates past July 16. Am I trying to do something not
allowed? Both the database bu and the log bu contain transactions and
data through August 2nd. Can someone point me in the right direction?Why are you using the NOUNLOAD option when recovering from a file?
Also,
What is the "N" right before the date/time in your STOPAT ?
Your first statement here says to backup log? I think you would want:
RESTORE DATABASE
(FROM ...)
WITH NORECOVERY
--this one for every full log you want to roll in:
RESTORE LOG
(FROM ...)
WITH NORECOVERY
RESTORE LOG
(FROM ...)
WITH RECOVERY, STOPAT = 'Date/time'
Also,
check out the RESTORE topic in Books Online.
I hope this is helpful.
medusa wrote:
> I have a customer who's cart has been deleting orders incorrectly. I
> backed up and restored the database from the remote server to my local.
> Would like to restore to point in time before the delete operation.
> BACKUP LOG plebesummercom
> TO disk= 'C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
> Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\butrans\translog.bak'
> WITH NORECOVERY, No_truncate
> Go
> RESTORE DATABASE plebesummercom
> FROM disk= 'C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
> Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\dbbu080106\8_1_2006_5_3
0_42_PM.bak'
> WITH NORECOVERY;
> GO
> RESTORE LOG [plebesummercom]
> FROM DISK = N'C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
> Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\butrans\translog.bak'
> WITH FILE = 1, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10, STOPAT = N'07/16/2006
> 11:13:04'
> GO
> Ok, no errrors are thrown, but when I select from a table, I'm still
> finding orders with dates past July 16. Am I trying to do something not
> allowed? Both the database bu and the log bu contain transactions and
> data through August 2nd. Can someone point me in the right direction?|||Well, that was the latest round of code. The n is put in there if you
tell management studio to script the action. The backup log is in there
because if it's not an error is thrown about not backing up the log
tail. Here, this doesn't work either--contains transactions through Aug
2:
BACKUP LOG plebesummercom
TO disk= 'C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\butrans\translog.bak'
WITH NORECOVERY, No_truncate
Go
RESTORE DATABASE plebesummercom
FROM disk= 'C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\dbbu080106\8_1_2006_5_30_
42_PM.bak'
WITH NORECOVERY;
GO
RESTORE LOG [plebesummercom]
FROM DISK ='C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\butrans\translog.bak'
WITH FILE = 1, STOPAT = '07/16/2006 11:13:04'
GO
SGCSNA wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Why are you using the NOUNLOAD option when recovering from a file?
> Also,
> What is the "N" right before the date/time in your STOPAT ?
> Your first statement here says to backup log? I think you would want:
> RESTORE DATABASE
> (FROM ...)
> WITH NORECOVERY
> --this one for every full log you want to roll in:
> RESTORE LOG
> (FROM ...)
> WITH NORECOVERY
> RESTORE LOG
> (FROM ...)
> WITH RECOVERY, STOPAT = 'Date/time'
> Also,
> check out the RESTORE topic in Books Online.
> I hope this is helpful.
>
> medusa wrote:|||Are you restoring from a full backup that falls *before* your STOPAT
date and all of the subsequent logs, up to the one that contains the
STOPAT date?
medusa wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Well, that was the latest round of code. The n is put in there if you
> tell management studio to script the action. The backup log is in there
> because if it's not an error is thrown about not backing up the log
> tail. Here, this doesn't work either--contains transactions through Aug
> 2:
> BACKUP LOG plebesummercom
> TO disk= 'C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
> Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\butrans\translog.bak'
> WITH NORECOVERY, No_truncate
> Go
> RESTORE DATABASE plebesummercom
> FROM disk= 'C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
> Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\dbbu080106\8_1_2006_5_3
0_42_PM.bak'
> WITH NORECOVERY;
> GO
> RESTORE LOG [plebesummercom]
> FROM DISK ='C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\My
> Documents\StephsProgramming\Plebesummer\
EDTWebsite\butrans\translog.bak'
> WITH FILE = 1, STOPAT = '07/16/2006 11:13:04'
> GO
>
> SGCSNA wrote:|||The full backup goes through Aug 2. I want to stop at July 16.
SGCSNA wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Are you restoring from a full backup that falls *before* your STOPAT
> date and all of the subsequent logs, up to the one that contains the
> STOPAT date?
> medusa wrote:|||STOPAT only works with Transaction Log Backups, so you would need a
full backup from sometime before the time you want on July 16th and the
subsequent log backups through the time you want on 7/16.
medusa wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> The full backup goes through Aug 2. I want to stop at July 16.
> SGCSNA wrote:|||Thanks a lot for you help.
SGCSNA wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> STOPAT only works with Transaction Log Backups, so you would need a
> full backup from sometime before the time you want on July 16th and the
> subsequent log backups through the time you want on 7/16.
> medusa wrote: