If I may ask you another question. Do you think the problem is that I don't have this database (MYDATA) in the Databases of my SQL Server? That is, I am running the command RESTORE FILELISTONLY against a backup copy of the database done on another server.
Thank you.
>If you're running the Query Analyzer on your PC it looks for E: drive on your PC not on the server.
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>>When I attempt to run the following command in the Query Analyzer:
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>>RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK = 'E:\MyFolder\MYDATA backup'
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>>I get the following error:
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>>Server: Msg 3201, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
>>Cannot open backup device 'E:\MyFolder\MYDATA backup'.
> Device error or device off-line.
>See the SQL Server error log for more details.
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>>There is a physically a file "MYDATA backup.bak" in the folder "MyFolder".
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>>Please suggest where to read description of the Msg 3201 and so on.
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>>Thank you.
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