As George said have you checked the resource dependencies in the cluster group\application?

you could take a diff and use the 6 day old full with logs

Learner44 (6/19/2013)

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open MASTER KEY DECRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'password';

RESTORE DATABASE Encry2

FROM DISK = N'D:\SQL2008R2DB\MSSQL10_50.SQL2008R2\MSSQL\Backup\TDEPost.bak'

WITH FILE = 1,

MOVE N'mydb' TO N'D:\SQL2008R2DB\MSSQL10_50.SQL2008R2\MSSQL\Backup\TDEPost.mdf',

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Elliott Whitlow (6/19/2013)

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It is my understanding that the system databases get upgraded when SQL starts for the first time with the new (updated) binaries. It can tell internally that...

With the clustered ip resource offline try an RDP connection to the IP address 😉

I use a logon trigger for situations similar to this

Highly unlikely don't know of many shops that upgrade to datacenter from enterprise

you don't need to...

No problem we're all here to help one another

It's pretty simple, build your new cluster alongside the existing and migrate the objects as required (databases, logins, jobs, linked servers, etc)

hydbadrose (6/11/2013)

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Please help me here;

I have to rebuild the clusters so the plan is i have to move the sql databases to a new temporary server and rebuild these servers...

So you've had a failover then, do you want to fail it back?

Check the event logs for further info as to why the resource will not come online.

can you provide more detail on your storage subsystem?

I'm guessing the files with slow I\O are not on local disks 😉

You have your topology slightly skewed. The witness does not hold mirrored databases, that's the mirror instance that holds them.

The witness is a third instance that provides quorum in the...

I explain it all in the 2 resources I wrote 😉

You might want to read them.