Need Help With .bak Files.

[Ghezzo]

Hey, as the title says I need help to import a .bak file into a database, I don´t even know if its possible.

If it is possible, I need help.

Thanks 🙂

[peterlaursen]

Please tell:

1) Is the database a MySQL database?

2) if yes .. what is the server version?

3) how was that bak file created?

[Ghezzo]

Well, I have no idea of any of those questions, but it is for a Dekaron server.

And I have heard that MS SQL Server should work with those files, so I´m gonna try that, but thanks anyway.

I won´t stop using SQLyog cus of that, I use it all the time anyway 🙂

[peterlaursen]

Well .. if it is a MS SQL backup you cannot restore to MySQL.

But try to open it in an editor and see if contains SQL-statements. (and take a backup first because some editors may damage the content (garble binary data, truncate lines etc.)

[Ghezzo]

I got new files now, in a .db format tho, I don´t know how to make these work, I´ll check in them and see what I can find.

I dont have a real editor for it, so I tried to open it in notepad, and got this on the first line:

Code:

TAPE Œ ‡
¶à˜ , ^ còM i c r o s o f t S Q L S e r v e r SPAD ^ L

[peterlaursen]

It is a SQL Server binary backup of some kind. I cannot help with that. Maybe somebody else can.

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