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Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, you get the following error: An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL too many backup devices specified sql 2000 statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo) Additional information: Too many backup devices specified for backup or restore; only 64 are allowed. RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3205) Cause. You microsoft sql server 2000 service pack 4 are trying to restore a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database into Microsoft SQL Server 2000 instance. Backups created with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 cannot be restored to an earlier version of SQL Server(1). Solution. Make sure you are restoring to the intended SQL Server instance. Run the following command "SELECT @@version" on the target instance of the restore operation, and make sure you are not restoring to a SQL Server 2000 instance. References. (1) Books Online 2005 (April 2006) - RESTORE (Transact-SQL) .Send mail to webmaster@sqlcoffee.com with questions or comments about this web site.
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backup or restore; only 64 are allowed. RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3205) According to Microsoft this error can occur when all the following conditions are true:You want to restore a database backup that spans across multiple backup devices, and you have not specified more than 64 backup devices. You created the database backup on a computer that is running SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) (Build 2000.80.869.0) or a later build of SQL Server 2000 SP3. You try to restore the database backup on a computer that is running a build of SQL Server 2000 SP3 that is earlier than 2000.80.869.0. Ref : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833710 But today I was trying to restore a database backup that was taken from SQL Server 2005 instance and I restoring this to a SQL Server 2000 instance and I got this error. Unfortunately, I had split the backup into 10 stripes because the database was pretty large. So my initial thoughts suggested that this is due to the fact that I had 10 striped backup files. So I spent sometime in creating a new backup with just one file. But the error kept coming. Upon further research, I found that a lot of folks saw this error when they tried to restore a backup from a 2005 instance to database on 2000 instance. So the error seems to be misleading in some ways. Due to the fact that the structure of the backup header files were changed in SQL Server 2005, you can not restore it to a SQL Server 2000 instance. It might be worth trying the detach-attach method to work around this problem. One could also try to use the SSIS export/import method to get the data to a 2000 instance. For now, I decided to upgrade my instance to 2005 and restore the DB. Ref : http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sqldatabaseengine/thread/46e3ecf9-6eab-4aa0-9453-11e7269efb6e/ http://dbaspot.com/forums/sqlserver-server/378212-error-too-many-backup-devices-specified.html http://www.sqlcoffee.com/Troubleshooting023.htm Posted by Kaykay at