Any luck with this? We're also trying to set up a full text catalog on our subscriber without setting it up on the publisher and are having some configuration...

Since our backup restore takes a fair amount of time, I did a restore but left the database in norecovery mode and then started the publication steps. We couldn't...

Have you already configured your distributor for distribution of data by this publisher and configured distribution on the publisher with the appropriate windows accounts? This basically sets up the...

In case anyone else is trying to get this working with third party backup software, here's how we got the above to work. Our backup software has a conversion...

Yeah, it was a bad bump! Thanks for the reference for restarting a recovery and everyones help. I'll check if our backup tool has a restart option and...

We did just try another restore but we'd get the message that the database was in single user mode due to an in-progress recovery! So you are hooped. ...

Any problems testing the ODBC system DSN that you set up with connection info to your target perfmon database? And did you use SQL Server for this DSN? ...

No sure if this is the best approach, but we took the database offline, restarted the instance and then were able to start a new restore process. Any better...