Can't believe no one has pointed out that is not a good idea to shrink Production DBs.

ANBODY??

Your question is mis-leading BACKUP/RESTORE would indicate that a) you want to back it up and b) you would like to restore.

Backup as normal, after the cert has been backed up.

Restore using Cert and Private Key T-SQL

Something like this to BACKUP the CERT.

TEST first.

CREATE CERTIFICATE NorthwindCert

FROM FILE = 'C:\NorthwindCert_File.cer' ...

You need to read up on TDE.

The server A db needs to have the Certificate backed up.

Server B needs needs to be able to restore using the certificate. Copy the...