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Your 600GB database exists across 3 database files, each 200GB in size. It takes 12 hours to perform a full database backup. You decide to implement the following backup strategy :

Full backup : 9am Sunday
File 1 backup : 8pm Monday evening
File 2 backup : 8pm Tuesday evening
File 3 backup : 8pm Wednesday evening
File 1 backup : 8pm Thursday evening
File 2 backup : 8pm Friday evening
File 3 backup : 8pm Saturday evening
Transaction log backups : Hourly, every day.

DB suffers critical failure of the data file 3 at 1655hrs on Thursday causing widespread data loss and requiring a restore to recover. What would be the most efficient recovery procedure resulting in the least amount of data loss?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: May 25, 2007     Asked by: highvoltage 
  
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Submitted by: srikanth tirunagari
 
1) perform a tail log backup.
2) restore wednesday's File 3 backup with no recovery
3) restore all hourly transaction log backups in sequence taken after 8 pm on wednesday with no recovery
4) finally restore the tail log backup with recovery

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anjan_maity
May 25, 2007 05:29:57   #1  
srikanth tirunagari        

RE: Your 600GB database exists across 3 database files...
1) perform a tail log backup.
2) restore wednesday's File 3 backup with no recovery
3) restore all hourly transaction log backups in sequence taken after 8 pm on wednesday with no recovery
4) finally restore the tail log backup with recovery

 
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