restore of sql server question

I did a backup of my data base from my office, and copied the backup file (type of this file is called File). I copied this file to my laptop and restored the data base to my laptop. I had an older data base, so was looking for yesterday's data to be restored. but it didn't have my latest updates as of yesterday. the data of the back up was 1/30/04.

what else do I have to do, to assure the backup is done and picks up the data that was in the restored file??

any thoughts

bevI carry my DB back and forth to work quite frequently and I always do a complete Back Up to a new File Name that includes the date. (Example: BU010304) Before I restore it on my local machine, I always drop the old version of the DB.

That works for me, hope this is somehow helpful.

Restore msdb file

I had a problem with operating system so copy copied all of my database
backup files to another. I reinstalled the operating system and restored al
l
of the except the msdb database.
I received the following error when trying to restore msdb database.
The file () cannot be overwritten. It is being used by database msdb use
WITH MOVE to identify a valid location for the file.
Please help me resolve this issue.Use the MOVE option of the RESTORE command. Documented in Books Online. Star
t by investigating the
file layout of your backup using RESTORE HEADERONLY and RESTORE FILELISTONLY
.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
"Joe K." <Joe K.@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8744E2D0-F15A-4338-91D1-2F21B4BC9669@.microsoft.com...
> I had a problem with operating system so copy copied all of my database
> backup files to another. I reinstalled the operating system and restored
all
> of the except the msdb database.
> I received the following error when trying to restore msdb database.
> The file () cannot be overwritten. It is being used by database msdb use
> WITH MOVE to identify a valid location for the file.
> Please help me resolve this issue.
>

Restore msdb file

I had a problem with operating system so copy copied all of my database
backup files to another. I reinstalled the operating system and restored all
of the except the msdb database.
I received the following error when trying to restore msdb database.
The file () cannot be overwritten. It is being used by database msdb use
WITH MOVE to identify a valid location for the file.
Please help me resolve this issue.Use the MOVE option of the RESTORE command. Documented in Books Online. Start by investigating the
file layout of your backup using RESTORE HEADERONLY and RESTORE FILELISTONLY.
--
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
"Joe K." <Joe K.@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8744E2D0-F15A-4338-91D1-2F21B4BC9669@.microsoft.com...
> I had a problem with operating system so copy copied all of my database
> backup files to another. I reinstalled the operating system and restored all
> of the except the msdb database.
> I received the following error when trying to restore msdb database.
> The file () cannot be overwritten. It is being used by database msdb use
> WITH MOVE to identify a valid location for the file.
> Please help me resolve this issue.
>