Hi
Did you back this up to a tape or to disc?
Does this ?
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...8(SQL.80).aspx
John
"TC" wrote:
> I have a SQL 2000 Server that I want to create a test version of a database
> on another SQL 2000 server. After creating a backup (database – complete) of
> the desired database and attempting a restore on a dev server (creating a new
> db name on the dev server), it fails with a consistency error. The log
> contains the following message: 3266 :The backup data in 'D:\PPTest' is
> incorrectly formatted. Backups cannot be appended, but existing backup sets
> may still be usable. I have run dbcc checkdb checks on the source db and
> they seem ok. Any ideas why I am getting this error on the restore?