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Part 3 ended with a rule: one tool owns log backups, and everything else takes COPY_ONLY. This part explains what copy-only backups actually change, proves it from msdb, and then builds the pattern that makes them genuinely valuable: the pre-deployment safety net. This is part 4 of the backup and recovery series (part 1, part 2). Demos ran on SQL Server 2019 (CU32) and behave identically on SQL Server 2025 (RTM).

株式会社ソケッツのプレスリリース 株式会社ソケッツ（本社：東京都渋谷区、代表取締役社長：浦部 浩司、以下「ソケッツ」）が開発・提供するメディアサービスデータベース「MSDB」のクロスメディアデータを刷新し、IPコンテンツ ...

株式会社ソケッツのプレスリリース 株式会社ソケッツ（本社：東京都渋谷区、代表取締役社長：浦部 浩司、以下「ソケッツ」）が開発・提供するメディアサービスデータベース「MSDB」のクロスメディアデータを刷新し、IPコンテンツ ...

Skip to the bottom of the post for the TL;DR section for the on-call DBA where you can see an immediate cause and solution. SQL Server won’t start and at first, I couldn’t figure out wh…

株式会社ソケッツがメディアサービスデータベース「MSDB」を刷新し、IPデータベースを開発。膨大な関連データを活用し、エンターテイメントの未来を支援します。

株式会社ソケッツがメディアサービスデータベース「MSDB」を刷新し、IPデータベースを開発。メディアの枠を超えた情報の体系化を進めます。

株式会社ソケッツが、IPコンテンツを体系的に管理する新しいデータベースを開発。このプラットフォームは、様々なメディアの連携を促進します。

This series has used two sources for the same information. msdb records what the instance did. RESTORE HEADERONLY reads what's in the files. They describe the same backups and disagree on almost every name. Code that reads from both, which is most code that does anything useful here, ends up translating between them, and the translation is where mistakes get made.

Everything so far assumed you already knew the path to a backup file. Automating any of it means the code has to find the files itself, and SQL Server gives you no documented way to list a directory. Start with what msdb knows Before reaching for anything exotic, msdb records the path of every backup this instance wrote:[1] SELECT [b].

In part 1 I used msdb to find a database whose newest full backup had aged past a week. msdb tells you a backup happened. It doesn't tell you the file is still readable, or which database it really came from. For that you have to open the file, and RESTORE HEADERONLY is how. It reads the header of every backup set on a device and returns one row each, without restoring anything.