What we ended up doing was planning to do a combination of transactional replication for tables with primary keys, and snapshot replication for tables without them, but the final list...

Thanks to everyone who offered an opinion. I'm working with our services partner to see if we can script a solution that will get us through until we know where...

Both servers do have their storage on a SAN, though I have very little interaction with it and don't know any of its features.

Since there's a lot of data...