Hi Noor,
POINT-IN-TIME means recover database to a specific point of time.
Say you have a Finance database, You have transaction log backup till 10 AM.
At 10:15 AM, an user did a wrong updates, instead of putting 10% discount he
made 15% and did the processing and records got commited. In this case if
you have a FULL recovery model set to that database you can recover till
10:14 AM.
Steps:
1. Perform a Transaction log backup at 10:15 AM on your real database.
2. Restore the full database backup to a new database with norecovery
3. Restore the subsequent transaction log backups (in the order of backup
taken)with NORECOVERY till the backup taken in step1
4. Restore the last transaction log backup (taken in step.1 with RECOVERY
and STOPAT option with date and time (Say in yor case 10:14 AM).
Now you have got a new database with data till 10:14 AM.
Thanks
Hari
MCDBA
[quoted text, click to view] "Noorali Issani" <naissani@softhome.net> wrote in message
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> Hari, can you tell me about
>
> "This will help you to recover the datase
> till POINT-IN-TIME in the event of crash."
>
> How ? like let's assume I took the log file back before 2 hours and my
> database gone crashed, how can I do POINT-IN-TIME recovery.
>
> Thanks in advance Hari
> Noor
>
>
> "Hari" <hari_prasad_k@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:O0F5aU5GEHA.2840@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> > If your data is not that critical and the database size is not that hge
> > (less than 2 GB) you can perfom a FULL database backup daily once.
> > If the data is ver critical set the database to "FULL" recovery model
and
> > perform a Transaction log backup. This will help you to recover the
datase
> > till POINT-IN-TIME in the event of crash.
> >
> > For more information check Recovery models in books online.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Hari
> > MCDBA
> >
> > "frank" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:FE632019-4F4A-413D-8EEC-AE856AEC9760@microsoft.com...
> > > in work , I usually use full backup .
> > > i think file backup will be more useful ,but the information of it is
> > rare .
> > > if anyone use it before .
> >
> >
>
>