I assume you locally export your SQL data to a file and backup these files - correct?

If so - the restore is nothing else but a directed file recovery which you can of course run from GUI or the command line.

Of course you must do the administrative SQL cleanups later.

Thanks for the reply!

We perform networker backups of Sql databases, i.e. via a cmdline script:

Call "C:\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\nsr\bin\nsrsqlsv.exe" -c "SqlInstance" -s "NWInstance" -b "NWSaveSet" -S 3 -k -l full -N "Description" MSSQL:"SqlDatabase"

We want to restore via cmdline to a DR instance that has different volumes for the SqlData and SqlLog files.

For traditional native restores, we would restore and redirect i.e.

Restore Database SqlDatabase From Disk = ‘bakPath’ With Move ‘LogicalFilename1’ to ‘X:\SqlData\LogicalFilename1.ndf’, Move ‘LogicalFilename2’ to ‘X:\SqlData\LogicalFilename2.ndf’…

I see where the Networker cmdline restore includes file move commands, but can we retrieve a list of logical filenames from Networker in order to populate?

Christopher.