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arunsqladmin
Yak Posting Veteran

74 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-15 : 23:01:10
Hi,

how to clone a database in sqlserver and what are the pre-requisites
we need to take care before doing that if it is a production server,,, since we can not bounce the database ...

rmiao
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7266 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-15 : 23:04:32
Backup it then restore on target server.
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arunsqladmin
Yak Posting Veteran

74 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-16 : 05:48:37
if we can backup and restore in target server , what about the master database . how can we do that since we are going to backup when the db is online .will the backuped up db be consistent backup.
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rmiao
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7266 Posts

Posted - 2007-12-16 : 16:01:18
Nothing to do with master db unless you want to clone whole server. And db backup is online process, contains everything at the end of backup.
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