No backupset selected to be restored SQL Server 2012

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I have a SQL Server 2012 database with filestream enabled  However  when I backup it and try to restore it on another SQL Server 2012 instance  on another machine   I simply get this message that      No backupset selected to be restored    Not even a single line of more explanation  What s wrong here   Every other database without filestream is OK and can be restored successfully  Is it something related to filestream  Should I install a hotfix or something like that

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I had the same issue with SQL Server 2014 (Management Studio could not see the folder in which the backup file resided, when attempting to locate it for a Restore operation). This thread held the answer that solved my problem. Quote:

The SQL Server service account can be found by Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services. Double-click on the SQL Server service->Log On tab. You'll either be using the "Local System account" or "This account" to define a specific account. If you are using the Local System account, you won't be able to reference backups that are not local to the server. If, instead, you have defined the account to use, this is the account that needs to have access to the backup file location. Your ability to access the backups using your personal logon is irrelevant; it is the SQL Server account that is used, even though you are initiating the backup. Your IT people should be able to determine what rights are granted to each account.

Hope that helps someone.

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In my case  new sql server install  newly created user  my user simply didn t have the necessary permission  I logged to the Management Studio as sa  then went to Security Logins  right-click my username  Properties  then in the Server Roles section I checked sysadmin

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In my case  it was a permissions issue      For the Windows user  I was using did not have dbcreator role   So I followed the below steps   Connect as sa to the SQL server Expand Security in Object Explorer Expand Logins Right click on the Windows user in question Click on Properties Select Server Roles from Select a page options Check dbcreator role for the user  Click OK

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Another potential reason for this glitch appears to be Google Drive  Google Drive is compressing bak files or something  so if you want to transfer a database backup via Google Drive  it appears you must zip it first

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I have run into the same issue  Run SSMS as administrator then right click and do database restore  Should work

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If you want to replace the existing database completely use the WITH REPLACE option     RESTORE DATABASE  lt YourDatabase gt   FROM DISK   lt the path to your backup file gt   lt YourDatabase gt  bak  WITH REPLACE

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In my case  it was permissions and the fact that I used  Restore Files and Filegroups     rather than simply  Restore Database         That made the difference

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For me the problem was having the  BAK file located in an encrypted folder on the server  Even with full Admin rights  I could never get SSMS to read the file  Moving the  BAK to an unencrypted folder solved my problem  Note that after moving the file you may have to also change the properties on the actual file to remove encryption  right click  properties  advanced  uncheck  encrypt contents to secure data

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My problem ended up being permissions  I m on a dev machine and copied via Homegroup  Somehow  probably based on where I copied the file to  the permissions got messed up and Management Studio couldn t read the file  Since this is dev I just gave Everyone permissions to the bak file and could then successfully restore via the GUI

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Using SQL Server 2012 Express   My error  from the SQL Manager - Restore Database Dialog    No backupset selected to be restored  Further  there were no backupsets shown in the list to select   The issue was that I had moved 1 of the 5 backup files to a folder where the SQL Server service logon user did not have permissions - I tried to add that user  but could not get the NT Service MSSQL SQLEXPRESS user into the security list   I moved the file under the Documents folder for the service user  and that enabled it to read all the files I had selected - 4 at that point - and the error changed to  media set missing  - then I looked around for another backup file  and when I added that I was able to restore   The answers in this question helped me look in the right places and work my way to a solution

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I thought I was not stupid enough to mix up the versions - however  I didn t realize that on my new server  a SQL Server 2005 instance was already installed from birth named SQLEXPRESS  When trying to restore my SQL Server 2008 R2 backed up database in SSMS 2012 to the SQLEXPRESS instance  the list of backup sets was empty    Eventually I realized that the SQLEXPRESS instance on the server was not a 2012 instance  but a 2005  I disconnected and connected to the actual 2012 instance  in my case named SQLEXPRESS2012   and it  obviously  worked

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I had this problem and it turned out I was trying to restore to the wrong version of SQL  If you want more information on what s going on  try restoring the database using the following SQL   RESTORE DATABASE  lt YourDatabase gt   FROM DISK   lt the path to your backup file gt   lt YourDatabase gt  bak    That should give you the error message that you need to debug this

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FYI  I found that when restoring  I needed to use the same  SQL User  credentials to login to SSMS  I had first tried the restore using a Windows Authentication account

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For me  it was because the backup file was still open by another process  Here s the event log   BackupDiskFile  OpenMedia  Backup device  X  Backups MyDatabase MyDatabase backup 2014 08 22 132234 8270986 bak  failed to open  Operating system error 32 The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process     Simply closing and reopening Sql Server Management Studio resolved it  so obviously it was ssms exe that had the handle

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Run SQL Server Management Studio as an administrator  right-click the shortcut exe  then select  Run as Administrator    then try to restore

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I think I get the award for the most bone headed reason to get this error  In the Restore Database dialog  the database dropdown under Source is gray and I thought it was disabled  I skipped down to the database dropdown under Destination thinking it was the source and made a selection  Doing this will cause this error message to be displayed

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My problem was that my user was in the Builtin-Administrators group and no user with Sysadmin-role on SQL Server  I just started the Management Studio as Administrator  This way it was possible to restore the database

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I got the same error message even though I backup and restore on the same single machine   The issue was from here  when backup  i had 2 item in the destination box    So the fix would be  make sure only 1 item in the  destination  box  Remove all the others if there are

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For me it s a user privilege issue  I logged-in with sa user and its working fine

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When running   RESTORE DATABASE  lt YourDatabase gt   FROM DISK   lt the path to your backup file gt   lt YourDatabase gt  bak    It gave me the following error      The media family on device  C  NorthwindDB bak  is incorrectly formed  SQL Server cannot process this media family  RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally   Microsoft SQL Server  Error  3241    Blockquote   Turns out You cannot take a DB from a Higher SQL version to a lower one  even if the compatibility level is the same on both source and destination DB  To check the SQL version run   Select   Version   To see the difference  just create a DB on your source SQL server and try to do a restore from your backup file  when you do this whit SSMS  once you pick the backup file it will show some info about it as opossed to when you open it from a lower version server that will just say  no backupset selected to be restored    So if You still need to move your data to a lower version SQL then check This

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For me  It was a permission issue  I installed SQL server using a local user account and before joining my companies domain  Later on   I tried to restore a database using my domain account which doesn t have the permissions needed to restore SQL server databases  You need to fix the permission for your domain account and give it system admin permission on the SQL server instance you have

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