Restore Problem

Hi,

I am trying to restore a point in time restore of backup. My bkp plan includes full bkp-weekly, daily diff bkp and every 2 hr TLog bkp. I would like to restore the latest bkp as on ''2007-10-18 ' with minimul data loss. Hence i follow the following seqence of restores;

--Restore Full backup
RESTORE DATABASE [ABC] FROM ABC_BackUp WITH FILE = 1, NORECOVERY
GO
--Restore Diff backup
RESTORE DATABASE ABC FROM ABC_BackUp WITH FILE = 3
--Restore TLog backup
RESTORE LOG ABC FROM ABC_BackUp WITH FILE=4, NORECOVERY, STOPAT = '2007-10-18 15:11:00'
GO

The system works well with Full bkp and Diff bkp restore but throws following error while TLog restore;

ERROR:
Server: Msg 4305, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The log in this backup set begins at LSN 86001000000103200001, which is too late to apply to the database. An earlier log backup that includes LSN 86001000000081300001 can be restored.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally.

The following is the backup information of my database:-

Position Bkp Type Bkp Size First LSN Last LSN 1 1 1923229696 86001000000001600002 86001000000005900001 2 2 7284736 85999000000278900001 86001000000081100001 3 5 534528 86001000000081100001 86001000000081300001 4 2 598016 86001000000103200001 86001000000176700001 5 2 729088 86001000000176700001 86001000000276800001 6 2 598016 86001000000276800001 86001000000353100001 7 2 663552 86001000000353100001 86001000000432900001

Pls. guide why i get this error. I don't do any shrinking between Full bkp and TLog bkps. Thanks in advance.

Please mention the timings for Full, Differential and Transaction log backups from the above sequence, it seems the error is by default as the LSN is mismatched.|||

Full backp : every sunday 7.00 am

Diff backup: daily 11.00 pm

trn backup: every 2 hrs mon - sat

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hello,

i just wanted to say that i have the same promblem when trying to restore poin-in-time on a different server... maybe this helps.

i can do point-in-time restores on the same server.

i believe the log sequences get mixed up on other servers.

is there a workaround?

thank you

Hugo

|||As explained it refers on the LSN matchup, also mention the restore sequence as it seems the backup database & log are not matched up when restored.|||

i was wrong... i was backing up the log to two different files... sorry. everything is working now.