Hello,
I think I understand log-tail backup principles. If I have a database running FULL recovery mode, I have a FULL backup in past time, and need to restore to a state after the last FULL backup, I backup the tail of log, and then restore FULL backup, and then to point in time from full backup. This is all fine. If I try to restore to point in time from SSMS 2012, it automatically offers to do log-tail backup.
However, I have a different case:
I have database A on production server. This is running live.
I have a copy of same database on dev server. This is a playground. Once I restore database A on dev server, something happens, that if I try to restore, the option to do log-tail backup is grayed out. And SSMS does not allow me to select any point in time.
It seems that it somehow remembers a different set of backups from previous dev server backups, instead of the new set that has been restored.
So how do I do this on a different machine?
And a side question - how do I list and see and manage backup sets, media sets etc? Perhaps the problem lies in that?