title: SQL Server 2012, Not able to restore the database from .bak file
body: <p>I have a SQL Server database on my server and I've taken a backup of it. When I try to restore it to a local machine it is throwing me an error and the process is terminating abnormally,</p>
  
  <p>I have created a new empty database in my local machine and trying to restore the <code>.bak</code> into this database with the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK = 'C:\Users\user\Documents\Downloads\LiveDB.bak'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To get LogicalName for both datafile and logfile and I got the error as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Msg 3241, Level 16, State 13, Line 1<br>
    The media family on device 'C:\Users\user\Documents\Downloads\LiveDB.bak' is incorrectly formed. SQL Server cannot process this media family.<br>
    Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1<br>
    RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What is this error causing? </p>
  
  <p>If this is the wrong way to restore a database from a backup file, can someone tell me the step by step procedure to get it working. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>