you will want to make certain that if you take a backup of master on a server in your environment that you aren’t interfering with any existing backup plan:
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Next we will create a test login as part of our practice run:
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Just for fun, we will create a new database as well:
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Since the login and database were created after the backup they won’t be there after the restore is complete.
RESTORE DATABASE master FROM DISK = 'C:\SQL\Backups\master.bak' WITH REPLACE
CREATE DATABASE [restore_test] ON
( FILENAME = N'C:\SQL\Data\restore_test.mdf' ),
( FILENAME = N'C:\SQL\Logs\restore_test_log.ldf' )
FOR ATTACH