I’ve no idea, and my first reaction is to contact Quest, but that’s not likely to help if you are not a current customer. I think your best bet is to get a trial version and see if that allows for you to do a restore, and then do a native dump. However, I’d be concerned that you are going to get more requests for old databases. Wish I could be of more help, and I hope you and everyone are healthy and well.

Hope you n family is going great and staying safe.

I have a question related to this. We have removed litespeed from VOYA about 3 years back. Now one of AppDev team need an old database again and we have litespeed backup of that database. There are 15 backup files (multiple) of around 17 gigs each. Not sure if that works, we took backup of Extractor.exe when litespeed was there. Would that extractor.exe work? We tried extracting the native backup out of these. it did create the output files and kept running for about 11 days uninterrupted, only to be aborted as a result of server reboot. File sizes were less than 30 mb each. Not sure when went for so long which resulted in nothing. Do you have idea how can we extract native backup out of those litespeed backup files. Would installing free trial litespeed version on a server work and would that help in restoring these litespeed backup file on server? or if you have anything else in mind. need help please. thank you sir!!

Bryan,

Sorry, I don’t have an answer for you other than to suggest you use native compression. I’m not familiar with Litespeed anymore, and I’ve no idea what benefit they offer, if any, over native compression.

HTH

super useful article however I am running into an issue with the extractor command. I have litespeed 8.5 trial downloaded (because I just need to extract a litespeed file) and when i run the -F command i get “Not a valid LiteSpeedT for SQL Serverr format file (Type is: 1).”

any idea what this one is? I have searched the web and the best I can gather is version difference? the company that compressed the data is probably using an older version. I have been trying to find a legacy download but have not found much luck. Do i have any other options beyond asking the company to use native sql compression?

Pankaj, good to hear from you! Hope all is well!

I’ve no idea about Litespeed, it’s been years since I’ve used the product. I’d suggest opening a support ticket, or reviewing their documentation. I suspect you need to convert each Litespeed file, as you suggest. I have no idea if you can control the number of threads used, either. Sorry I can’t be of more help to you here.

Tom

I have a query on this. What if the original litespeed backup contains multiple files? Would you convert each of the multipart file separately? It leads to another question, do we have any control over the number of native backup files this utility will create? How does it come up with thw number (of files) it want to create?

Thank You
Pankaj Gera

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.