Any other solutions for SQL's “The media set has 2 media families but only 1 are provided. All members must be provided.” error?

Question

I am trying to restore a 200mb database into SQL 2008 and I am getting this error \"The media set has 2 media families but only 1 are provided. All members must be provided.

Answer 1

See this thread. The Microsoft Project Manager for SQL Backup explains the error.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqltools/thread/abf50e00-c9b0-4809-9e61-43ed8a53e968/

Basically you can stripe your backup across 2 files (Like RAID 0 not what he said) and if you try to restore from only one file you get this error. You need both files to restore and you can't recover from only one file. I don't know what to tell you, maybe you are getting the error message by mistake. Otherwise, I hope you didn't do a scrub on that old server's drives.