you will want to make certain that if you take a backup of master on a server in your environment that you aren’t interfering with any existing backup plan:
BACKUP DATABASE [master] TO DISK = N‘C:\SQL\Backups\master.bak‘ |
Next we will create a test login as part of our practice run:
USE [master] GO CREATE LOGIN [master_restore_test] WITH PASSWORD=N‘test‘, DEFAULT_DATABASE=[master], CHECK_EXPIRATION=OFF, CHECK_POLICY=OFF |
Just for fun, we will create a new database as well:
CREATE DATABASE [restore_test] |
Since the login and database were created after the backup they won’t be there after the restore is complete.
RESTORE DATABASE master FROM DISK = ‘C:\SQL\Backups\master.bak‘ WITH REPLACE
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CREATE DATABASE [restore_test] ON( FILENAME = N‘C:\SQL\Data\restore_test.mdf‘
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( FILENAME = N‘C:\SQL\Logs\restore_test_log.ldf‘
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FOR ATTACH |