Example: Piecemeal Restore of Database (Simple Recovery Model)
A piecemeal restore sequence restores and recovers a database in stages at the filegroup level, starting with the primary and all read/write, secondary filegroups.
In this example, database adb
is restored to a new computer after a disaster. The database is using the simple recovery model. Before the disaster, all the filegroups are online. Filegroups A
and C
are read/write, and filegroup B
is read-only. Filegroup B
became read-only before the most recent partial backup, which contains the primary filegroup and the read/write secondary filegroups, A
and C
. After filegroup B
became read-only, a separate file backup of filegroup B
was taken.
Restore Sequences
Partial restore of the primary and filegroups
A
andC
.RESTORE DATABASE adb FILEGROUP='A',FILEGROUP='C' FROM partial_backup WITH PARTIAL, RECOVERY;
At this point, the primary and filegroups
A
andC
are online. All files in filegroupB
are recovery pending, and the filegroup is offline.Online restore of filegroup
B
.RESTORE DATABASE adb FILEGROUP='B' FROM backup WITH RECOVERY;
All filegroups are now online.
See Also
Concepts
Other Resources
BACKUP (Transact-SQL)
Examples of Restore Sequences for Several Restore Scenarios
RESTORE (Transact-SQL)