| Jen Kuntz 2006-01-30, 9:23 am |
| We regularly backup a production database and restore it over a test database
for testing purposes, on the same server instance.
In 2000 this worked fine. In 2005, this does not appear to be working
correctly. I use the GUI interface to do it. Here are the steps. Has
something changed or is this a bug?
1) Backup the production database as normal
2) Right click on test database, tasks, restore database.
3) "To" database is test (defaults correctly).
4) "From" database defaults to test; change to production database. As soon
as I change this, the TO database changes to match what I pick as the FROM db.
5) Change the "TO" back to TEST db.
6) Click on Options to check pathnames. The Original and Restore As
pathnames and filenames are the same - they are the the "FROM" filenames
(i.e. production db).
I have to manually change the Restore As to the correct MDF/LDF files which
I never had to do in SQL 2000.
Ideas? Am I missing something obvious?
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