Restoring SQL Backup Question

[atrl]

Hello all, I am trying to create a test environment so I can test some things out before I do things. The only thing that I dont really want is all the posts we have almost 2 million posts. So my question is can I restore a database backup without restoring the threads and posts or will this corrupt the database?

[BirdOPrey5]

You need to restore the full database, you can prune (delete) the threads afterwards.