I am trying to restore a .bak file (backup taken on SQL Server 2008 R2, compatibility level 100). I am restoring the backup on SQL Server 2012 edition. I get the below error. Unfortunately the original DB from where the DB was backed up is no longer available. I am new on this project. I was given the bak file on a thumb drive.
Any suggestions on how I can restore the DB to 2012 ?
Restore of database 'TstDB' failed.
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Read on ***13(The data is invalid.)
This is all is the error message. When I run RESTORE VERIFYONLY, I get the below error:
Msg 3203, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Read on "C:****" failed: 13(The data is invalid.)
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
VERIFY DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
RESTORE HEADERONLY was successful. When I run restore database with stats=1 I get the below:
10 percent processed.
20 percent processed.
[...]
70 percent processed.
80 percent processed.
Msg 3203, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Read on "C:\ccc.bak" failed: 13(The data is invalid.)
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
