Features of SQL Virtual Restore
SQL Virtual Restore Key Features:
- Rapid restore: turn your backup into a fully functional, live database – without a physical restore – and get quick and easy access to your data. Mounting your backup as a live database carries a near-zero additional storage footprint and is considerably faster than a full restore.
- Multiple backup types: Just point SQL Virtual Restore at full, differential or transaction log backups created with native SQL Server, SQL Backup Pro (version 6), or SQL HyperBac.
- Support for read/write operations: Behaving just like a normal, live database, databases mounted with SQL Virtual Restore are ideal for development and test work in environments where storage space is at a premium.
- Smart object level recovery: gain access to full, transactionally consistent data, with all objects visible and available, so you can run recovery operations from your point-in-time backup.
- Easy backup verification: The database you mount with SQL Virtual Restore behaves like a normal live database, meaning that a DBCC CHECKDB command will fully verify the integrity of your backup file.
- Flexible data access: SQL Virtual Restore supports any data access method, including SQL Server Management Studio, ADO.NET and SQL Query Analyser.
- SQL Virtual Restore Wizard: Use SQL Virtual Restore via T-SQL's native RESTORE DATABASE and RESTORE LOG commands, or use the SQL Virtual Restore wizard to mount your backups in just four steps.
- Declarative Referential Integrity: SQL Virtual Restore will enforce the referential integrity of your database, so data that is not compliant with your business rules cannot be inserted into your virtually restored database.
- Powered by HyperBac: SQL Virtual Restore uses the original HyperBac technology.