Tag: RESTORE detected an error on page (0:0) in database

DBA Utilities, Errors and Exceptions, SQL

Error Exception: Msg 3183, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 RESTORE detected an error on page (0:0) in database “dbname” as read from the backup set.

Recently we encountered the below issue while restoring a database. And we also observed the database has gone into “restoring” mode.

Msg 3183, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
RESTORE detected an error on page (0:0) in database “dbname” as read from the backup set.

The message is clear that there is something wrong on the backup set. There could be many issues related, but most likely reason would be the backup file would have got file corrupted.

You would likely to take a fresh backup and try with restore and in most cases it works good. So, the take away is “we should always validate our backups”. This is exactly what Paul S Randal explains with a survey and more details as here.

See Also

How to recover restoring database in SQL Server

How to recover “Recover Pending” database in SQL Server

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