HELP ! Production down and backups not restoring properly!

I was mistakenly logged into the wrong server this morning and deleted all
of our product related information!!
I've been doing weekly full backups with hourly log file backups.
I have 2 questions...
1. The most pressing first. My weekly backup happens every Saturday
morning at 2am. My hourly log backups stop between midnight and begin again
at 6:15am Saturday. When I restore the full backup from last saturday it
restores fine. When I go to restore the first log it tells me the log is
too recent and there is an earlier one with LSN###....
I'm really stuck here...there is absolutely no way that there could be an
earlier log. I even tried a RESTORE LOG using the full backup to get the
log from there and it gives the same message.
2. When doing a restore through the SMS after selecting a file off disk you
get the backup sets in that file with checkboxes to select the backupset to
restore. My full backups do not show this. The list is empty so I cannot
go on. The restore seems successful by script. My script statements
originated from the "Generate Script" button when doing backups through the
interface. Am I missing something here? Below is a sample backup
statement:
BACKUP DATABASE [Products]
FILEGROUP = N'PRIMARY'
TO DISK = @.strBackupFile
WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT,
NAME = @.strBackupFile, SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
ANY HELP IS ***GREATLY*** APPRECIATED!!!
Actually now I'm seeing after restoring the full backup WITH RECOVERY it
still shows the database in a recovering state and it cannot be accessed!!
How can this happen? What have I done wrong here?
"Tim Greenwood" <tim_greenwood AT yahoo DOT com> wrote in message
news:OaKy0QxEHHA.4404@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I was mistakenly logged into the wrong server this morning and deleted all
>of our product related information!!
> I've been doing weekly full backups with hourly log file backups.
> I have 2 questions...
> 1. The most pressing first. My weekly backup happens every Saturday
> morning at 2am. My hourly log backups stop between midnight and begin
> again at 6:15am Saturday. When I restore the full backup from last
> saturday it restores fine. When I go to restore the first log it tells me
> the log is too recent and there is an earlier one with LSN###....
> I'm really stuck here...there is absolutely no way that there could be an
> earlier log. I even tried a RESTORE LOG using the full backup to get the
> log from there and it gives the same message.
> 2. When doing a restore through the SMS after selecting a file off disk
> you get the backup sets in that file with checkboxes to select the
> backupset to restore. My full backups do not show this. The list is
> empty so I cannot go on. The restore seems successful by script. My
> script statements originated from the "Generate Script" button when doing
> backups through the interface. Am I missing something here? Below is a
> sample backup statement:
> BACKUP DATABASE [Products]
> FILEGROUP = N'PRIMARY'
> TO DISK = @.strBackupFile
> WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT,
> NAME = @.strBackupFile, SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
>
> ANY HELP IS ***GREATLY*** APPRECIATED!!!
>
|||And while on the topic of backups, I setup this process based on input from
this group. It just seems that it ends up having an inordinate amount of
files to have to restore to get back online. Wouldn't it be better to just
do differentials hourly instead of log backups? Then in a failure you'd
never have more than 2 files to restore.
Just wondering.
"Tim Greenwood" <tim_greenwood AT yahoo DOT com> wrote in message
news:OaKy0QxEHHA.4404@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I was mistakenly logged into the wrong server this morning and deleted all
>of our product related information!!
> I've been doing weekly full backups with hourly log file backups.
> I have 2 questions...
> 1. The most pressing first. My weekly backup happens every Saturday
> morning at 2am. My hourly log backups stop between midnight and begin
> again at 6:15am Saturday. When I restore the full backup from last
> saturday it restores fine. When I go to restore the first log it tells me
> the log is too recent and there is an earlier one with LSN###....
> I'm really stuck here...there is absolutely no way that there could be an
> earlier log. I even tried a RESTORE LOG using the full backup to get the
> log from there and it gives the same message.
> 2. When doing a restore through the SMS after selecting a file off disk
> you get the backup sets in that file with checkboxes to select the
> backupset to restore. My full backups do not show this. The list is
> empty so I cannot go on. The restore seems successful by script. My
> script statements originated from the "Generate Script" button when doing
> backups through the interface. Am I missing something here? Below is a
> sample backup statement:
> BACKUP DATABASE [Products]
> FILEGROUP = N'PRIMARY'
> TO DISK = @.strBackupFile
> WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT,
> NAME = @.strBackupFile, SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
>
> ANY HELP IS ***GREATLY*** APPRECIATED!!!
>