RSVC,

I was reviewing your steps and I had a few more questions if you don't mind.

1) Steps 2 and 3 are not making sense to me...drop on the secondary and restore on the primary? Wouldn't I want to drop the database where I'm about to restore? In other words, drop database from primary then restore database to primary?

2) With steps 3 and 4, why would I restore a database on the primary and then back it up right after that? Wouldn't that effectively be the same as the backup I just restored?

Thanks,

Mike