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mandania
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Restore old database in Microsoft fabric

I want to restore some old .BAK backup files in Microsoft Fabric Data warehouse. There are no restore task in there so having some problem how i can achieve this. Has anyone done this before?

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AndyDDC
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Hi @mandania there is no concept of .bak files for Fabric Warehouses.  You'll need to use the Restore functionality 

 

Restore in-place of a warehouse from a restore point - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

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johnnyo
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I am not sure the accepted solution is actually a solution to the problem.

The problem is "how do you restore a SQL backup into a Data Lake?"

The answer is "you can't - or at least not directly".

The only way to do it would be to restore the bak file into a SQL Server Instance and then set up a job to copy the data into the data lake.

The Fabric restore functionality is only for Data lake data so of no use whatsoever in relation to bak files.

AndyDDC
Super User
Super User

Hi @mandania there is no concept of .bak files for Fabric Warehouses.  You'll need to use the Restore functionality 

 

Restore in-place of a warehouse from a restore point - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

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