Restore: Cannot Open Backup Device

I am attempting to restore a database onto "Server_A" from a backup file
located on a disk from a different server, "Server_B". My T-SQL is the
following:
restore database [dbname] from disk = '\\server_b\e$\backups\[backupfile.bak]
'
1. I have a domain account set up, and the domain account is running SQLAgent
on Server_A. This service has been stopped and restarted, and even
MSSQLServer service has been stopped and restarted.
2. From Server_A I can UNC successfully to '\\server_b\e$\backups\[backupfile.
bak]'.
3. When I run master..xp_cmdshell 'dir \\server_b\e$\backups\[backupfile.bak]
' I get returned "Access is Denied"
What am I missing? Since I can successfully UNC to the directory and file on
Server_B, it seems there is something not set up right on SQL Server. Please
help.
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You need to give read / write permission on the shared folder
"\\server_b\e$\backups" to the account used by sql server and sql agent
services.
AMB
"Robert Richards via droptable.com" wrote:

> I am attempting to restore a database onto "Server_A" from a backup file
> located on a disk from a different server, "Server_B". My T-SQL is the
> following:
> restore database [dbname] from disk = '\\server_b\e$\backups\[backupfile.bak]
> '
> 1. I have a domain account set up, and the domain account is running SQLAgent
> on Server_A. This service has been stopped and restarted, and even
> MSSQLServer service has been stopped and restarted.
> 2. From Server_A I can UNC successfully to '\\server_b\e$\backups\[backupfile.
> bak]'.
> 3. When I run master..xp_cmdshell 'dir \\server_b\e$\backups\[backupfile.bak]
> ' I get returned "Access is Denied"
> What am I missing? Since I can successfully UNC to the directory and file on
> Server_B, it seems there is something not set up right on SQL Server. Please
> help.
>
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|||The account has full control on "\\server_b\e$\backups". As a check, I UNC'd
over to the directory and created a text file, just to test.
Alejandro Mesa wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
>You need to give read / write permission on the shared folder
>"\\server_b\e$\backups" to the account used by sql server and sql agent
>services.
>AMB
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|||RESOLUTION:
Not only did I have to have the domain account running SQLAgent, but I also
had to have the domain account running MSSQLServer on Server_A.
Robert Richards wrote:
>I am attempting to restore a database onto "Server_A" from a backup file
>located on a disk from a different server, "Server_B". My T-SQL is the
>following:
>restore database [dbname] from disk = '\\server_b\e$\backups\[backupfile.bak]
>'
>1. I have a domain account set up, and the domain account is running SQLAgent
>on Server_A. This service has been stopped and restarted, and even
>MSSQLServer service has been stopped and restarted.
>2. From Server_A I can UNC successfully to '\\server_b\e$\backups\[backupfile.
>bak]'.
>3. When I run master..xp_cmdshell 'dir \\server_b\e$\backups\[backupfile.bak]
>' I get returned "Access is Denied"
>What am I missing? Since I can successfully UNC to the directory and file on
>Server_B, it seems there is something not set up right on SQL Server. Please
>help.
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|||Robert,

> The account has full control on "\\server_b\e$\backups". As a check, I UNC'd
> over to the directory and created a text file, just to test.
I am not talking about your account, I am talking about the domain account
used by sql server and sql agent services.
Why can't I backup/restore my SQL Server database to a share on another
server?
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/...025/14025.html
AMB
"Robert Richards via droptable.com" wrote:

> The account has full control on "\\server_b\e$\backups". As a check, I UNC'd
> over to the directory and created a text file, just to test.
> Alejandro Mesa wrote:
>
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