Gary,

> I am in the process of moving servers and the restore time of the 53GB
> backup is a going to cause a timing problem
>
> I have made a level 0 backup of the database, 53GB, I would like to restore
> the level 0 backup in the meantime, and on the night of the server swap do a
> level 1 backup which will be less than a 1GB, and restore that backup on it's
> own, effectively adding the data missing since the level 0 backups was made
>
> Will this be possiblem, is a level 1 backup valid to restore without the
> corresponding level 0 backup?

But you will have a Level 0 backup. It is the backup you did the night before...

The level 1 backup has no value on its own, it can only be used/applied to a level 0 backup.


Sean