Hi.

I was wondering if anybody could piont me to a reference for the .bak
file format.

I need to upload a huge amount of data from a unix machine into an MS
SQLServer database and have tried lots of different things with mixed
results.

I occurs to me that if I can generate a .bak file on the unix side,
move it over to the MS side and 'restore' the database, that would
probably be the fastest possible method.

Thanks,

-jim