Error in restoring a database

Question

Hi,
I can't able to restore a database, below is the error,please help me out?
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
Restore failed for Server 'xxxxx'.  (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended)
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The media set has 2 media families but only 1 are provided. All members must be provided. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
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Answer 1

Basically the error is telling you that when the backup was taken it was made to two backup files rather than one, so the backup was stripped across the two of them. You're now trying to restore the backup using only one of those files, which is why you're
getting the error. To do the restore you need to use both files not just one of them. There's a good discussion of this error here
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/abf50e00-c9b0-4809-9e61-43ed8a53e968/the-media-set-has-2-media-families-but-only-1-are-provided?forum=sqltools which goes into more detail of how you end up in this situation, and also methods you
can use to find out what the second file was (in case you don't know) so you can hopefully track it down.