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Posted - 2003-03-13 : 07:49:37
Tiamiyu writes "Okay!

I have four servers that I am trying to update periodically. One of them is a processing server and the other three are production servers. They all have thesame copy of the processing server.

What I want to is to be able to periodically copy the database on the processing server to the remaining three servers.

What I am hoping to do is as follow:

1. detach the database on the processing server
2. ftp the data and log files from processing to all the three servers
3. Attach the database back on processing server
4. From the processing server, detach each of the servers and attach them with the new files.

I know that 1 through 3 are possible but I am not sure if 4 is possible.

Anybody with any idea on this will be highly appreciated. Or if you have a better idea for me, that will be great!

Thanks

Tiamiyu"

nr
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Posted - 2003-03-13 : 08:54:29
Yes it's possible if you have permission and a connection.
You are controlling each of the remote servers from the processing server.
Why not create a job on each of the remote servers to do it - the job could run at a certain time and look for the appearence of the files (rename or move them to the directory after the ftp or you will get locking problems).

You could also use sql-dmo to copy all the objects instead of a dettach/attach
see
www.nigelrivett.com
DMO transfer

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Posted - 2003-03-13 : 12:21:06
Duplicate post:
[url]http://www.sqlteam.com/Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24466[/url]

We already provided a better solution for you in the above thread. What more do you want?

Tara
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