backup and restore

On a production server, I do a full backup monthly and then delete data
from the tables that is older than the current date. On a separate
non-production server I restored the initial full backup. My question
is how can I add/restore the subsequent backups to the non-production
server with out stepping on the data that was initially restored?
Thanks,
Daniel<danielsmith611@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On a production server, I do a full backup monthly and then delete data
> from the tables that is older than the current date. On a separate
> non-production server I restored the initial full backup. My question
> is how can I add/restore the subsequent backups to the non-production
> server with out stepping on the data that was initially restored?
>
RESTORE WITH MOVE, followed perhaps by merging the data.
EG
BACKUP DATABASE AdventureWorks
TO AdventureWorksBackups ;
RESTORE DATABASE AdventureWorks_200608
FROM AdventureWorksBackups
WITH MOVE 'AdventureWorks_Data' TO
'C:\MySQLServer\AdventureWorks_200608.mdf',
MOVE 'AdventureWorks_Log' TO 'C:\MySQLServer\AdventureWorks_200608.ldf';
David|||Do you have an example of the merge?
David Browne wrote:
> <danielsmith611@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> RESTORE WITH MOVE, followed perhaps by merging the data.
>
> EG
> BACKUP DATABASE AdventureWorks
> TO AdventureWorksBackups ;
>
> RESTORE DATABASE AdventureWorks_200608
> FROM AdventureWorksBackups
> WITH MOVE 'AdventureWorks_Data' TO
> 'C:\MySQLServer\AdventureWorks_200608.mdf',
> MOVE 'AdventureWorks_Log' TO 'C:\MySQLServer\AdventureWorks_200608.ldf'
;
>
> David|||Or would log shipping work?
danielp wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Do you have an example of the merge?
> David Browne wrote:|||"danielp" <danielsmith611@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Or would log shipping work?
No. Your deletes would get shipped.
David|||"danielp" <danielsmith611@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Do you have an example of the merge?
It's just SQL, or perhaps an SSIS package. What do the tables look like?
David