(Getting desperate!) A Disturbing Message During BCM Database Restore

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Hi all,

I posted this a few weeks ago and still don't have a solution. Anyone
have any ideas? The whole issue seems absurd! :P

Thanks in advance!

-James

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We just rebuilt our domain from the ground up after making (and
testing) good backups and all went well until I tried to restore our
Business Contact Manager database. I have BCM up and running on a new,
empty database and when I try to import from the backup file I get:

"You cannot restore this database because you were not a user
when the database was backed up. Contact the owner of the
database or a system administrator for more information. Your
original database has not changed."


Well duh. Of course my current account (as referenced by GUID) didn't
exist when the database was backed up, the server has been erased.
Backups are supposed to act as insurance in case things like user
accounts get erased, or why bother making backups?! :)


My user and domain name are the same as before, and I've temporarily
reset my password back to what it was before. The password protection
option was not selected when the database backups were created.


I'm sure I'm misreading the error somehow--certainly the restore
mechanism would not require the same account GUID that performed the
backup to perform the restore? Any suggestions?
 
How did you backup your database as an .bcm,.msbcm or a file level backup
using *.ldf and *.mdf files
 
An excellent question, Raul.

I used the built-in BCM backup mechanism that's presented in the menus
in Outlook. This resulted in an *.MSBCM file.

To do the restore, I'm using the same data management window from
withing Outlook/BCM's database management feature.

(Sorry I can't give you the exact directions to the feature; I don't
have it installed on this machine. Basically I'm using the MS provided
backup tools from within BCM's Outlook interface.)

-James
 
Hi

Thanks for the update but as far as i know it should work fine .Looks like a
weird one something with regard to permissions not sure.I will post in if i
get any info

With Regards

Raul
 
Hi

Can you tell whether the machine on which the data was backed up was an
admin or a non-admin.Also what about the machine on which the data is being
restore
 
Sorry about the slow reply, it's been busy around here.

I was logged on as a local and domain admin for both the backup and the
restore. Is that what you were asking?

Thanks,

James
 
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