Online restore

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188671.aspx

指的是Restoring data while the database is online is called an online restore. A database is considered to be online whenever the primary filegroup is online, even if one or more of its secondary filegroups are offline. Under any recovery model, you can restore a file that is offline while the database is online. Under the full recovery model, you can also restore pages while the database is online.

因此优势就在于restore file或object level restore而不用take整个数据库offline