Restore SSIS without backup and only from MDF and LDF files

  • I am needing to restore / rebuild an SSIS Catalog on a new SQL Server. Problem is, I don't have a backup and only have the MDF and LDF file. I am unfamiliar with SSIS so I have tried attaching the DB but it doesn't re-create the catalog and the jobs.

    I know the password to the SSISDB. What steps can I do for me to be able to restore? I am thinking of the following but unsure whether it is the way to go:

    1. Create a new instance of the SSIS Catalog (thereby creating a new SSISDB mdf and ldf files)
    2. Stop all SQL Services
    3. Replace the newly created SSISDB mdf and ldf files with the old ones I have
    4. Start all SQL Services

    I have done the above steps successfully for the msdb system database so I would like to know if it will also work for the SSISDB. If not, what steps do you recommend? Additionally, is there another way for me to re-locate where the SSISDB will be stored aside from the  C: drive?

  • Do you have the Master Key from the original server? That is, the key used to encrypt (some of) the data inside SSISDB?


  • Note also that SSISDB does not contain any jobs, merely packages, logs, environments and configurations.


  • Is the master key different from the password? I have the password but I'm not sure if it's the master key.

    Yes you're right, I have the SQL jobs already from the MSDB, what I meant was I need to get the packages inside the SSISDB and basically build the SSIS Catalog, since the work of the SQL Jobs are to run the packages inside it.

    I only have the MDF and LDF files though.

  • Nevermind, I was able to solve my problem. However I didn't do it via the MDF and LDF but rather I was able to find a copy of the old project files. I just re-deployed the project to a new SSIS catalog in the new environment

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