Says they're both Enterprise Edition.

What happens if you try to restore the backup to the 2012 server; does that work?

Never heard of Ola 🙂 ! It's so much easier to use his scripts than to try to run your own. Everybody uses them.

https://ola.hallengren.com/

Can you...

I agree that DevOps is a culture. It's first and foremost about how people work together. You can do it without special tools.

Are you using Ola Hallengren's solution, out of interest?

Is there any prolonged blocking?

Oh wow, skeleton567. That is beautiful, as is your wife's attitude to life. Really inspiring. Have a great summer.

Yep; people can get so territorial about backups! I say DBAs call the shots when it comes to database backups :D.

I'm so jealous of your Glacier plans, Steve. I'd love to go there. I love US national parks so much. We're going to try to get to Yosemite this year...

I usually plan my holidays months in advance. It gives me something to look forward to for one thing, but also I never book a package and I tend to...

Ideally you would have a file-share witness in a third location, yes.

Try Perry's Stairway: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairway/112556/

Can you start the instance in single-user mode (-m startup parameter)? You might need to use sqlcmd.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/backup-restore/restore-the-master-database-transact-sql?view=sql-server-2017

I'm with you, Budd. I would allocate 52 GB myself (1+3+48).