Re: View Backup Header from T-SQL

From: Andrew J. Kelly (sqlmvpnoooospam_at_shadhawk.com)
Date: 05/10/04


Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:29:11 -0500

A backup device is essentially nothing more than an Alias to a physical
device in your case a file on disk. The logical device is just Meta data to
define where it is and what type of file etc. There is nothing stopping you
from accessing the file directly.

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Andrew J. Kelly  SQL MVP
"kirk1880" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:88373B33-6C69-4FB1-8274-8F7CABB01647@microsoft.com...
> I thought Restore HeaderOnly was for backup devices?  I only have a file


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