SQL Server 2008 Restore from Backup fails with error 3241 'cannot process this media family'

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Published on 2010-03-20T00:42:32Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 0:51 UTC
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I am attempting to backup a database from a SQL Server instance on one machine and restore it to another, and I am encountering the frequently discovered 'SQL Server cannot process this media family' error.

Each of my instances are SQL Server 2008, but with different patch levels
Restore: 10.0.2531.0
Backup: 10.0.1600.22 ((SQL_PreRelease).080709-1414 )

The restore DB is express. Not sure about the backup version. The backup version is on a virtual private server. The restore is on my development box.

When I restore to a different database on the source (backup) server, it restores fine.

Lots of stuff on google about this issue, some on stackoverflow about this issue, but nothing which is this exact situation.

Any thoughts? It should be straightforward to do a backup and restore from one machine to another (having done this thousands of times in with SQL 6.5,7,2000,2005).

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