Restoration

  • I have been working SQL for a while but never had to do this so apologies as it is something that has come up numerous times but I want to get a grip on it.,

    I have a SQL Environment 1 Instance that is in a cluster.  it is running on 2008.    

    II am going to build another cluster in a different location contactable from the other.  

    The Databases are large about 2tb each and i have a limited time to migrate.

    What i wanted to do is to restore the backups from he night previous to the new environment (2012 SQL to 2016 SQL) and i wanted to just copy the changes from one db to the other to keep them in sync and i have never done this before. 

    Can anyone enlighten me as to the best way to do this?

  • Andrew.weckermann - Tuesday, January 22, 2019 5:13 AM

    I have been working SQL for a while but never had to do this so apologies as it is something that has come up numerous times but I want to get a grip on it.,

    I have a SQL Environment 1 Instance that is in a cluster.  it is running on 2008.    

    II am going to build another cluster in a different location contactable from the other.  

    The Databases are large about 2tb each and i have a limited time to migrate.

    What i wanted to do is to restore the backups from he night previous to the new environment (2012 SQL to 2016 SQL) and i wanted to just copy the changes from one db to the other to keep them in sync and i have never done this before. 

    Can anyone enlighten me as to the best way to do this?

    You can configure and migrate everything to the new server - logins,jobs, linked server etc.
    Do a full backup and restore with norecovery mode and make sure there is no full backup after that on the old server.
    You can restore a differential as well with norecovery - otional
    Place the database into read only or single user mode and take a final log backup. -- cut over to make sure no updates 
    Restore a log backup to the new server with recovery and verify everything.

    Muthukkumaran Kaliyamoorthy
    https://www.sqlserverblogforum.com/

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