MSDE 2000 backups and restores

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Hi All

I am new to MSDE (from access)
I have chosen simple recovery mode for MSDE Database and do a full backup
each day then subsequent backups within the same day using differential
backups

The problem is I don't really understand how the differential backup should
work

1. Do you use a different file name for the Full and Differential backups?
e.g
BACKUP DATABASE TRAMCARS TO DISK = N'C:\Backup\Tramcars.bak' WITH INIT,
NOUNLOAD, NOSKIP, STATS = 10, NOFORMAT, NAME = 'Tramcars Diff Backup'
GO
BACKUP DATABASE TRAMCARS TO DISK = N'C:\Backup\Tramcarsdiff.bak' WITH INIT,
differential,
NOUNLOAD, NOSKIP, STATS = 10, NOFORMAT,
NAME = 'Tramcars Diff Backup'
GO

2 Do you use different file names for each differential backups during the
day or append each diff backup to the previous?
Because the literature shows TSQL code for Restoring includes reference to a
File = 1 (or 2 etc)


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Regards
Steve
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