This afternoon a Sitefinity application broke. Our client had been madly updating content in preparation for imminent go live. We quickly decided that restoring the SQL Azure database would be the fastest way to fix things.
Something I had done in the last 10-20 minutes broke the application. The client had been updating content during this time. To avoid losing too many content updates, I thought I would try restoring to 10 minutes prior, then if that didn't work, try 20 minutes.
I used the Azure portal to restore to a new database from 10 minutes prior. This finished in about 5 minutes. I stopped the application, renamed the original database _latest, then renamed the restored database to the original name, then restarted the app.
Unfortunately the problem was still present, so I thought I would then try restoring to 20 minutes prior.
The problem is, after I have renamed the databases, all the point in time restore data is gone - from both the original and the restored!
I tried renaming the _latest database back to it's original name, but still there is NO restore data available!
So, I'm wondering what procedure should I follow to restore a database without losing the restore data?
