Hi!I have some issues with our backup plan since we implemented a new business application that requires a FULL backup every night of our Production DB and restores it automatically to our a database in our Test environment. (Let's call it DB1) This Backup/Restore procedure is builtin in these specific DB's (implemented by the application developers) and are independent of our normal backup plans.Our normal backup plan that we use on all our databases (including the one mentioned above) looks like this:FULL backup once a weekDIFF backup every nightTRANS-LOG every hourI thought that by running DB1's nightly FULL backup in COPY-ONLY mode, it wouldn't interfere with our normal backup plans restore sequence.Been googling about this alot and got the impression that this is the main purpose of the COPY-ONLY option. Unfortunately not!If I try to restore DB1 through Management Studio in the morning, I'm only able to restore it from the COPY-ONLY Fullbackup that run that night and a few Trans logs that's been backed up since that. (My weekly FULL, the DIFFs and other Trans logs are nowhere to be seen) It completely "resets" my backup set every night because of this and that's unacceptable. I need to be able to restore DB1 on a "hour to hour" basis, at least 3 days back in time.Have I completely misunderstood what the "Copy-Only" option does, or am I doing something terribly wrong here? I'm far from a SQL Guru but thought I'd at least I got a hang of how SQL Backup/Restore works, but obviously not :(Some help would be very appreciated//Chrille
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