Comments on: Backup and restore SQL databases using powershell http://andrewmorgan.ie/2011/12/backup-and-restore-sql-databases-using-powershell/ Grumpy ramblings Mon, 06 Jun 2016 09:35:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Bryan http://andrewmorgan.ie/2011/12/backup-and-restore-sql-databases-using-powershell/#comment-422 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:57:31 +0000 http://andrewmorgan.ie/?p=1236#comment-422 I get an error that says Access is denied for the backup device… (Operating System Error 5) Strange thing is that it creates the backup file, just doesn’t know how to write to it after that. Any ideas?

]]> By: Andrew Morgan http://andrewmorgan.ie/2011/12/backup-and-restore-sql-databases-using-powershell/#comment-421 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:44:41 +0000 http://andrewmorgan.ie/?p=1236#comment-421 Thanks for the feedback / correction.

]]> By: Bynez http://andrewmorgan.ie/2011/12/backup-and-restore-sql-databases-using-powershell/#comment-420 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:58:20 +0000 http://andrewmorgan.ie/?p=1236#comment-420 Your help documentation states that the parameter is named SQLTrustedConnection, but in the PS code it is actually -TrustedConnection (no SQL at the beginning)

restore-SQLdatabase -SQLServer “sqlserver” -SQLDatabase “database” -Path “servershare$backup.bak” -SQLTrustedConnection

]]> By: Eugene http://andrewmorgan.ie/2011/12/backup-and-restore-sql-databases-using-powershell/#comment-419 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:40:12 +0000 http://andrewmorgan.ie/?p=1236#comment-419 Hello, here is a simple way of backing up and restoring via poowershell
http://pragmaticcoding.com/index.php/sharepoint-2010-simple-backuprestore-via-powershell/

]]> By: Andrew Morgan http://andrewmorgan.ie/2011/12/backup-and-restore-sql-databases-using-powershell/#comment-418 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:05:26 +0000 http://andrewmorgan.ie/?p=1236#comment-418 Hi Dan,

This script was the extent of my SQL knowledge I’m afraid :(

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]]> By: Dan http://andrewmorgan.ie/2011/12/backup-and-restore-sql-databases-using-powershell/#comment-417 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:53:12 +0000 http://andrewmorgan.ie/?p=1236#comment-417 Andrew – thanks for the great work here! It’ll be a massive time saver.

I’m able to get a database backed up to a file, but I’m trying to duplicate rather than doing a restore over the original. I started with errors about the new database not existing. I’m able to script around that, but now I’m getting errors about the mdf and ldf being in use. Can you point me in the direction of some resources where I can look into modifying your work to cope with this?

Thanks again for this – it’ll massively speed up the deployment of our test environment (a great thing to achieve a few weeks before my Performance Review!)

]]> By: Andrew Morgan http://andrewmorgan.ie/2011/12/backup-and-restore-sql-databases-using-powershell/#comment-416 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:41:49 +0000 http://andrewmorgan.ie/?p=1236#comment-416 Hi Sara,

Sounds like you have the connection strings mixed up, did you modify the file after you downloaded it?

Email me on andrew[at]andrewmorgan.ie and send me a copy of the file you are using, you probably dont want to publish it here :)

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]]> By: Sara http://andrewmorgan.ie/2011/12/backup-and-restore-sql-databases-using-powershell/#comment-415 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:27:06 +0000 http://andrewmorgan.ie/?p=1236#comment-415 Thanks for script, but when I try to use it I get “An expression was expected after ‘(‘. At SQLConn.Open (<<<< )"

Why is that?

Thankful for quick answer.

]]> By: Andrew Morgan http://andrewmorgan.ie/2011/12/backup-and-restore-sql-databases-using-powershell/#comment-414 Fri, 18 May 2012 16:59:52 +0000 http://andrewmorgan.ie/?p=1236#comment-414 Thanks for this, I’ll update the script

]]> By: Restuta http://andrewmorgan.ie/2011/12/backup-and-restore-sql-databases-using-powershell/#comment-413 Fri, 18 May 2012 14:51:41 +0000 http://andrewmorgan.ie/?p=1236#comment-413 Yes, just try to restore database to any with “-” in it’s name. “my-database” for instance.

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