Comments on: new release – snowball – all about the restore

By: Stuart Moore

Stuart Moore — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:37:31 +0000

Hi Martins, you would do that with this command:
Restore-DbaDatabase -SqlInstance server1 -Path c:\backups -DatabaseName NewName -ReplaceDbNameInFile

This will restore the database as NewName and also replace the old name in the Database filenames to avoid any clashes

By: Stuart Moore

Stuart Moore — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:32:50 +0000

Hi Raj,
To continue the restore you’d issue this command:
Restore-DbaDatabase -SqlServer testserver2 -Continue -Path ‘\\testserver1\Backup\xxxx$testerver1\testdb’ -MaintenanceSolutionBackup

This will recover your database. If you want to be able to restore more log files, then use this:
Restore-DbaDatabase -SqlServer testserver2 -NoRecovery -Continue -Path ‘\\testserver1\Backup\xxxx$testerver1\testdb’ -MaintenanceSolutionBackup

Hope that helps

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:01:04 +0000

Thank you so much, this is so helpful.
I have question in regards to applying the last few days logs for a already restored(in-recovery) Database using Restore-DbaDatabase -SqlServer testserver2 -NoRecovery -Path ‘\\testserver1\Backup\xxxx$testerver1\testdb’ -MaintenanceSolutionBackup

is there a trick available like the above that

By: Martins

Martins — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:09:53 +0000

Hello,
How to restore database to a new name (for example MyDB_new)? I don’t want to REPLACE.

[Restore-DbaDatabase] Failure | Database My_DB exists, so WithReplace must be specified

By: Greg N

Greg N — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 23:46:51 +0000

Thank you Thank you Thank you
One line command I just restored 32 databases with Ola Hallengren backups and 3 days of logs.
Many hours of work made easy.

Where do I send the chocolates?

By: Mulham

Mulham — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 13:38:47 +0000

Thanks for this great work. Is there any way of making -filemapping switch dynamically populated based on running this query: select name, filename from sysfiles ? I was trying something like this without luck.

$query=invoke-sqlcmd -ServerInstance $instanceName -Database $Databasename -Query “select name,filename from sysfiles”
$Finalquery=$query| %{“‘”+'{0}” =”{1}”{2}{3}’ -f $_[0],$_[1],$_[2],$_[3] }
$FileMapping =@{}

By: Chrissy LeMaire

Chrissy LeMaire — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:55:23 +0000

Hey Gordon, Thanks so much for the note 😀 We’re so happy that you enjoy dbatools. I’ve asked Stuart to investigate support for 3rd parties! https://github.com/dataplat/dbatools/issues/1035

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:24:23 +0000

Great work. Unfortunately, those of us who use a 3rd party backup tool (we use Litespeed in our shop) cannot use the Backup/Restore bits of dbatools. But I do use it for so many other things!!

By: anil

anil — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:26:39 +0000

Awesome work – Very impressive and helpful !!

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Using dbatools for automated restore and CHECKDB - Centino Systems Blog — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 14:14:40 +0000

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