In this case, we have to create the subscriber pointing to "Original Publisher" though we are active on different node in AG.

After droping the encryption key, I am able to restore the database.

Found the problem.  Database is enabled for encryption (probably someone had tested it) as it's a development environment.   I tried restoring in a SQL Server 2016 version and got...

Strange:  Moved the backup file to local storage and tried restoring.  Still the same error,
Msg 3203, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Read on "D:\xxxxx.bak" failed: 13(The data is...

Tried it 3 to 4 times but no luck.  Even ran dbcc checkdb and confirmed no fault on source db and then taken a backup.

@jeff Moden

I need to restore 7 databases from 5 different production servers and restore it into a development server. I am using Powershell to get...

For now, I had achieved the same by using ExecuteWithResults().

Thanks for the update Sue_H.   Could you please confirm that you had done it with Pull subscription?

I am getting the "Network-related or instance-specific error occurred" while trying to connect locally. But the SQL Service is up and running and I am able to connect from a...

Have you explored the native encryption in SQL server 2008 R2? Let us know, if you have some requirement which cannot be achieved through native encryption.

Thanks for all your info. It had given me lot of insights... I am keeping database mirroring and log shipping as my solution to migrate/upgrade the database. And...

Thanks GilaMonster. But still, I am worried on the part of copying. Let's say that copying 1 TB file to a target server takes 12 hours and it...

Hi, Thanks for the information. I am looking for some storage level option for moving the databases. Let's say that I have a database of 1 TB to...

Thanks Grant. I had included below three parameters,

•State of SQL Server Database Engine Windows Service in Active/Passive

•State of SQL Server Agent Windows Service in Active/Passive

•State of Windows Server Failover...

Thanks Grant.

Here they are not using any monitoring tool. A team will be assigned to built script or process for monitoring. A input has to go to that team...