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Transportable VSS Backup and Restore SQL Server 2005

Transportable VSS backups of the SQL Server Writer can only be restored by Session. Refer to the section Restore Methods for a description of the types of restore available in the Restore Manager.

Because transportable VSS backups are run as multistreaming jobs and, for the SQL Server Writer, each database is backed up to a different session, to restore the entire SQL Server Writer, you must individually restore each database session. Each session is one database.

Note: Though SQL Server Writer supports differential backups, differential and incremental backup functionality is not supported at this time.