restore - "No backupset selected to be restored" SQL Server 2012

Question

I have a SQL Server 2012 database with filestream enabled. However, when I backup it and try to restore it on another SQL Server 2012 instance (on another machine), I simply get this message that:

No backupset selected to be restored.

Not even a single line of more explanation. What's wrong here?

Every other database without filestream is OK and can be restored successfully. Is it something related to filestream? Should I install a hotfix or something like that.

Answer 1

I had this problem and it turned out I was trying to restore to the wrong version of SQL. If you want more information on what's going on, try restoring the database using the following SQL:

RESTORE DATABASE <YourDatabase> 
FROM DISK='<the path to your backup file><YourDatabase>.bak'

That should give you the error message that you need to debug this.