Moving all database to another server

  • Hello Everyone

    I am quite a newbie when it comes to SQL Server as most the time I rely on the DBA at the customer site to perform most of my DBA requirements, but for some reason, I am not at a customer who seems to have very limited DBA skills so I am trying to figure out somethings on my own.

    I work with an application called FileNet, which is part of the IBM Software stack since IBM bought the product in 2006.

    What I have done on VMWare is the following:

    Have a Windows 2003 SP1 server (DEMODC) running SQL Server 2005 SP2 instance running, with 3 databases (GCD, BPF, VWdb) and of course there are the system databases. All the data files are located on C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data

    We are now planning on moving the databases onto a MS SQL Cluster, so what I've done is build another VMWare image (SQLMOVEDB) with SQL 2005 SP2 and I've created a drive called E:\SAN where the databases should now reside. On this new server, the master, model, msdb and tempdb already reside on the E:\SAN because that's how I've built it.

    Now I've been doing reading on moving all the databases (system and 3 custom ones) to this new server, but for the life of me can't figure it out. There are a lot of articles on moving the data files from say c:\ to d:\ on the same server, but can't find anything to move between servers with different host names.

    I've read this article about moving the users:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918992/

    I am just not sure which order to do things.

    I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

    Regards

    Robert Brauer

    Consultant

  • Hey there

    Thanks, for the response, I'll take a look at those and get back to you.

Viewing 3 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Login to reply