Automatics restore script

I am setting up a job to automatically restore the standby database.
This is to test our tape backups. I need to passon the latest full
backup and log file names to the tape system to extract the files. How
do I get the file names? I would like to store these file names in temp
table and pass on to tape system one by one to extract it to local
disk. Do I need to query the msdb of primary or backup directory?
Please suggest sql to achieve this.
Thanks
TramIf you do SQL Backups then you shouldn't need to know the file names because
the backup is referenced by database name. Are you doing file system
backups? That's not recommended unless you detach the database first.
Query the sysfiles system table for the physical file names.
--
David Portas
SQL Server MVP
--|||A I need to restore from third party tape subsyste, the enterprise
manager doen't recognize the restore fle anmes. I have to develop the
script to retiriev the latest backup and logs therafter.|||A I need to restore from third party tape subsystem, the enterprise
manager doen't recognize the restore fle anmes. I have to develop the
script to retiriev the latest backup and logs therafter.|||A I need to restore from third party tape subsystem, the enterprise
manager doen't recognize the restore fle anmes. I have to develop the
script to retiriev the latest backup and logs therafter.|||Hi
If it is 3rd party, ask the 3rd party vendor how you can script a restore
using their command line tools.
If SQL Server did not back the data up itself (to disk or a backup device
that it can control) it can't get the data back for you by itself.
Regards
--
Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Zurich, Switzerland
IM: mike@.epprecht.net
MVP Program: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/epprecht/
"tram" <tram_e@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1117887893.908844.130200@.f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>A I need to restore from third party tape subsystem, the enterprise
> manager doen't recognize the restore fle anmes. I have to develop the
> script to retiriev the latest backup and logs therafter.
>|||Thirty party vendor has command to resore the files. I have to passon
the filename as parameter, that is latest bak file and corresponding
trn files.|||Hi
Have you looked at the backupfile and backupset tables in msdb to see if it
has what you need?
John
"tram" <tram_e@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1117889003.683361.325430@.g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Thirty party vendor has command to resore the files. I have to passon
> the filename as parameter, that is latest bak file and corresponding
> trn files.
>sql