Correcting Restore Point

Hi,
Running SQL Server 2008 R2.  We have applications that we maintain for clients on several different servers.  Recently, it was discovered that a member of the team was not using copy-only backups when taking backups of client databases to transition
to test servers.  This has me concerned because of restore points.  These backups that were taken were overwritten to the same physical location on the test servers over a period of time where we can't recover each of them in sequence.
This hasn't resulted in any issues for us as of yet, but my question is how can I get the restore point reset where our last off-site backup will be in sync with the next one taken?  My fear is that without taking action we may need backups which we
do not possess if something were to happen.
I may have the concept wrong here but I figured it's better to be safe and ask the experts than assume and be wrong.
Thanks in advance for the assistance!
Best Regards
Brad

Hello, Brad.
Are you using differential backups, or just a combination of full + transaction logs? The backups copied to the test servers were full backups only, or transactional log backups as well?
Full backup using copy only options will only preserve the chain for differential backups, but they have no effects over log chains. With that said,
you can use your regular full backups with your transactional log backups, assuming you have all the log backups and the log chain is intact, even if other, unplanned full backups took place.
These unplanned backups would only be a problem if you use differential backups.
For more information please refer to the following article.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191495.aspx

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