Comments on: Native Restore From Litespeed Backup

By: Thomas LaRock

Thomas LaRock — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:22:38 +0000

John,

You will need to extract the native dumps in order to do the restore without Litespeed installed. I do not know if the tool is free to keep or not, but you will certainly need that tool to perform the extraction.

By: John

John — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:06:29 +0000

OK Rockstar

we want to get rid of litespeed and use sql2008 compression…don’t want to argue the merits of that decision here.

Just want to know if we drop litespeed and we want to restore wone of our Litespeed backups, will sql server native restore consume the litespeed backups? or do we need to keep this extractor tool….is the tool free to keep?

Thanks

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:48:46 +0000

Holland – do you have any benchmarks you can point us to showing that it’s faster? I’d like to see those.

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Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:22:20 +0000

[...] Native Restore From Litespeed Backup - Here’s a great tip from Thomas Larock on how to extract the natural SQL Server Backup file from a Litespeed backup archive. [...]

By: John Sansom

John Sansom — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:03:29 +0000

Great tip.

I use Litespeed all the time but I was not aware that this could be done.

Very handy indeed.

By: Holland Humphrey

Holland Humphrey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:45:40 +0000

this is why my company switched to hyperbac.

Both backup and restore commands are native so it’s much easier to work with. not to mention it is cheaper and faster.

By: Troy Gallant

Troy Gallant — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:16:07 +0000

I have found the LiteSpeed GUI so friendly and easy to work with that I use it automatically now, even for native backups. Sure, I *can* do it using the EM/SSMS GUI or t-sql but LiteSpeed’s interface makes it even easier just to use it. No, I’m not an employee of Quest; just appreciate a good product when I see one. Have a Grateful day…Troy