We have many customers that are resilient to changing or upgrading continuously their working environments. So when upgrading, we have to be able to upgrade from very old environments to the newest ones. In this sense, we must be able to manage old backups
in a transparent way. SQL 2012 has put us on a huge problem because it does not recognize these backups, and we need to answer our customer in a positive and promising manner that they won't loose their data. The message we are receiving from the server is:
The database was backed up on a server running version 8.00.0760. That version is incompatible with this server, which is running version 11.00.2100. Either restore the database on a server that supports the backup, or use a backup that is compatible with this
server.
Obviously there is no backup compatible with this server, and the original SQL 2000 server already was upgraded to SQL 2012. Is there a simple way of recovering the data contained on this old backup or similar ones?
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Restore old backup on a SQL Server 2012
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