Restore a Old Backup HELM database file and configure Helm

Sometimes there may be a situation in which all the data is lost and you have a backup of old helm database. In my case the backup file is c:\Backup\cmhelm_db.bak

1. Install the new Helm in the server

2. Restore the Helm database
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a . Better to use a new database

osql -E -S .\Helm

1> create database cmhelm
2> go
The CREATE DATABASE process is allocating 0.63 MB on disk 'cmhelm'.
The CREATE DATABASE process is allocating 0.49 MB on disk 'cmhelm_log'.


b. Restore the backup to new database
1> RESTORE DATABASE cmhelm FROM DISK='c:\Backup\cmhelm_db.bak' with move 'cmhelm
' to 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$HELM\Data\cmhelm.MDF',move 'cm
helm_log' to 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL$HELM\Data\cmhelm_log.L
DF'
2> go
Processed 2552 pages for database 'cmhelm', file 'cmhelm' on file 1.
Processed 1 pages for database 'cmhelm', file 'cmhelm_log' on file 1.
RESTORE DATABASE successfully processed 2553 pages in 0.107 seconds (195.397

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Now all the backup database contents are restored in the new database


3. Configure Helm to use new database by changing the database name to 'cmhelm' in helm-config-tool


That is it and you can get all the old helm data in control panel.