SQL Server Restore – Unable to Create Plan Due to Break in LSN Chain

backuprestoresql serversql-server-2012

My backup plan is:

  1. Full backup – once a day
  2. Differential backup – every four hours
  3. Transaction Log backup – every 30 minutes.

All database backup are stored on my computer.

I add some wrong changes to my database and now I need to restore it to point-in-time (SQL Server 2012) with the help of SSMS.

Firstly I restored the last full backup WITH NORECOVERY, it restored successfully, then I tried to restore the last differential backup WITH NORECOVERY and received the following error message:

Unable to create restore plan due to break in LSN chain.

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Please advise. What am I doing wrong?

Best Answer

Recently I have faced with the same issue. I have googled for a while and found that this is a problem in the Microsoft products. I wrote the article according to this error message, so you can find more information there.

Disclaimer: I am the Marketing Manager for Pranas.NET, maker of the Sql Backup and FTP tool promoted in that article.

So, to solve this issue and restore your database to point-in-time use T-SQL commands:

Restore your last full backup

RESTORE DATABASE your_database FROM DISK = 'd:/full' WITH NORECOVERY, REPLACE

Restore your last differential backup

RESTORE DATABASE your_database FROM DISK = 'd:/diff' WITH NORECOVERY

And restore your transaction log backups, when you will restore the last transaction log backup point the time you need to restore your database

RESTORE LOG your_database FROM DISK = 'd:/log1' WITH NORECOVERY

RESTORE LOG your_database FROM DISK = 'd:/log2' WITH STOPAT = '2016-01-05 13:29:59.000', RECOVERY

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