Error on restore a database using sqlcmd

Question

Hi
I wrote a command to to restore a database (from SQL server backup tool) , it works for a few restore files but faild with a specific bak file.
The error:
sqlcmd  -U sa -P password -Q "RESTORE DATABASE TfsWorkItemTracking FROM DISK='x:\tfs\TfsWorkItemTracking.bak' WITH  FILE = 1,
 MOVE N'TfsWorkItemTracking' TO N'D:\SQL_Data\Data\TfsWorkItemTracking.mdf',  MOVE N'TfsWorkItemTracking_log' TO N'L:\SQL_Data\Log\TfsWorkIt
emTracking_log.ldf',  NOUNLOAD,  REPLACE,  STATS = 100"
Msg 3634, Level 16, State 1, Server SRVRND-TFSDB10, Line 1
The operating system returned the error '3(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 15105)' while attempting 'CreateFile' on 'C:\Prog
ram Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\FTData\TeamFoundationServer10FullTextCatalog\SQL.HDR'.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Server SRVRND-TFSDB10, Line 1
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
I understood from the error that it is an access error - BUT the path the process try to create the file is not exist at all.
One more issue - when I use the SQL Management consle to restore the database it works propery.
Any idea ?
CM Consultant

Answer 1

Hello Jason, OP and future readers,
The issue here is not what Jason suggested, but was caused by the fact that this database (TfsWorkItemTracking) is a part of Team Foundation Server, and has embedded in it a third item (for Full Text Search queries) that also needs its own MOVE TO clause.
Here is a suitable SQLCMD query that will do what the OP needed:
sqlcmd -U sa -P password -Q "RESTORE DATABASE [TfsWorkItemTracking] FROM  DISK = ’x:\tfs\TfsWorkItemTracking.bak’ WITH  FILE = 1, 
MOVE N’TfsWorkItemTracking’ TO N’D:\SQL_Data\Data\TfsWorkItemTracking.mdf’, 
MOVE N’TfsWorkItemTracking_log’ TO ’L:\SQL_Data\Log\TfsWorkItemTracking.LDF’, 
MOVE N’sysft_TeamFoundationServer10FullTextCatalog’ TO N’D:\SQL_Data\Data\TfsWorkItemTracking.TeamFoundationServer10FullTextCatalog’, 
NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 100"
The original poster was missing that third "MOVE TO" clause, and SQL Server didn't know what to do with the Full Text metadata in this backup.  Note that this object is referenced in the error message, and note that it is attempting
to create this file on the C:, which is the original location of the file when the backup was made, hence leading to the solution.
It is a certainty that the OP ran into this while attempting to migrate from Team Foundation Server 2008 to new hardware and a newer version of SQL and TFS, as this is a common hiccough in the process that isn't well documented.  (The majority of the
instructions just say "back up the databases, then restore them to the new SQL server...)
Jeff Woods
STI Computer Services, Inc.
Eagleville, PA