Cant restore raven from backup

[rabidlemming]

Hi,

boy not having a good day today :( ...anyway i noticed a lot of my documents in my database simply disappeared !? i think its because i have Expiration  switched in although i never configured this.  

any how i wanted to restore all the documents i had lost but when i try though the managment studio i got  "web server to deny the request because the content length exceeds the configured value" i tryed everything in my iis config to fix and override this but i could get the file to import. so i dropped the database all together in favour of using the restore command which would only work if the database didn't already exist 

however when i try though the managment studio i get 

"Unable to restore database Cannot restore when the Database.Document file is missing in the backup folder: C:\Raven\BackUp\2016-12-21-09-00-ravendb-backup"

if i try though linqPad it restores the database but with no documents 

var _Store = new DocumentStore { Url = "http://xxxxxx:80/",DefaultDatabase ="RavenDB" };
   _Store.Initialize();
 _Store.DatabaseCommands
 .GlobalAdmin
 .StartRestore(
 new DatabaseRestoreRequest
 {
 BackupLocation = @"C:\Raven\BackUp\2016-12-19-08-39-ravendb-backup\",
 DatabaseLocation = @"~\Databases\",
 IndexesLocation = @"C:\Raven\CompiledIndexCache\",
 DatabaseName = "RavenDB2"
 });

i also try the Raven.Server.exe command line and got 

PS C:\Users\carfuser\Downloads\RavenDB-3.5.2-patch-35181\Server> .\Raven.Server.exe --restore-source=C:\Raven\BackUp\201

6-12-20-08-55-ravendb-backup --restore-destination=C:\Raven\Databases --restore-system-database

System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot restore when the Database.Document file is missing in the backup folder: C:\Rav

en\BackUp\2016-12-20-08-55-ravendb-backup

   at Raven.Database.Actions.MaintenanceActions.Restore(RavenConfiguration configuration, DatabaseRestoreRequest restore

Request, Action`1 output) in C:\Builds\RavenDB-3.5-Patch\Raven.Database\Actions\MaintenanceActions.cs:line 57

   at Raven.Server.Program.RunSystemDatabaseRestoreOperation(String backupLocation, String databaseLocation, Boolean def

rag) in C:\Builds\RavenDB-3.5-Patch\Raven.Server\Program.cs:line 756

I tried several different backup files but all have the same issue  :(

what am i missing ?

thanks R

[Grisha Kotler]

Did you create the backup using Raven.Backup or the studio?

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[Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien)]

What are the contents of your backup folder?

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[rabidlemming]

I used the raven studio . I had incremental backup setup and i did a full back up before i dropped the database. My contents are like so:

[Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien)]

Those aren't backups, those are exports. You need to import them, not restore them.

See:

http://ravendb.net/docs/article-page/3.5/csharp/server/administration/differences-between-backup-and-export

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Office: +972-4-622-7811 l Fax: +972-153-4-622-7811

 

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[rabidlemming]

Ah...i see ...Doh! my bad...thanks didnt realise there was a difference sorry ...thank you :) 

On Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:06:59 UTC, rabidlemming wrote: