Home Forums Article Discussions Article Discussions by Author Discuss content posted by Perry Whittle Using Encrypted Backups in SQL Server 2014 RE: Using Encrypted Backups in SQL Server 2014

  • May 16, 2014 at 6:55 am

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    Perry Whittle (5/15/2014)

    george sibbald (5/15/2014)

    Perry, thanks for the article.

    If you have a test server on which you may restore backups from multiple prod servers how is that handled? Do you need to copy down the certificate from each prod server to a different location on the test server, or do you go for using a password instead and using the same password across your environment.

    Take this scenario

    I have ServerA with 1 default instance and database called BOB, backups for BOB are protected by the server certificate BobsBackups

    I have ServerB with 1 default instance and database called FRED, backups for FRED are protected by the server certificate FredsBackups

    I have ServerC with 1 default instance which is a test server, i want to restore to this test server backups of BOB and FRED.

    I need to backup the cert BobsBackups on ServerA and also the cert FredsBackups on ServerB. On ServerC i then create the certs from the backup files using the CREATE CERT ... FROM FILE ....

    Is this the scenario you were thinking of?

    Perry, may sound like a stupid question but the certificates you create on the test server don't have to be the same name as on the source servers, right? I'm asking because of what would happen if the certificates on ServerA and ServerB had the same name.

    Thx

    Thierry

    george sibbald (5/15/2014)

    p.s. might be a line comment missing from the restore TSQL shown?

    not sure what you mean by this