I think I'm hosed...anyone ever seen this before?

Server: Msg 3270, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
An internal consistency error occurred. Contact Technical Support for assistance.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.

i bet Technical Support has seen it, otherwise they wouldn't be telling you to contact them

Last time I heard of that it was a problem with the connection that was corrupting the .bak file for a reason that I can't remember. However, that error can occur for many other reasons.

Do you get any errors when you do a DBCC CHECKDB?

Our "Technical Support" team said the D drive took a hit...whatever that means, and my guess is that they restored it....half of my db's are suspect now

I was able to restore 1 database, then I started to restore another and got that error

I'm taking a backup to another box now to see if it'ss restore there

I'm thinking I'll have to rebuild the whole box

I've seen that before ... the backup was corrupted and I had to fall back to a previous day and use tran logs to get current - IMHO you are hosed on that backup file.

Well I'm copying the backups to another server and I've got 5 per database

I hope the backups aren't corrupt

See...the importance of testing the backups is not lost on me now....I still think it's SQL Server itself that's corrupted

Somone mentioned something about the Reg keys

Was it me?

No

Nice new title

Backup was corrupted

When I tried to restore it on another box, I got the same thing

Damn, now I gotta try'em all until I find a good one