Restore from an image backup

The following procedure assumes that you do not have any incremental backups of the transaction log that you need to apply as part of the recovery process. For information about recovering a database when you have backed up multiple copies of the transaction log, see Recovering a database with multiple transaction logs.

 To restore a database from an image backup
  1. Copy the database files back to their original location.

  2. Restart the database server.

 See also