Does anyone know why the initial insert into TableC in Primary which gets replicated to Subscriber doesn't trigger the log reader agent on Subscriber to send the transaction back to...

ok, thanks guys!

Thanks @jeff.  I didn't receive a notification from your reply for some reason.

For clarification, at what point do i take the "DIF" or "FULL" backup, right...

For the record, I ran in to a couple of issues executing the plan above:

- Backing up the (now) 300GB log file requires the same amount of space;...

Cool, sounds like a plan.

Thank you!

Bart,

Right now, log_reuse_wait says "Nothing". I do recall after the first Backup Log, I was not able to shrink the log because of the error i posted earlier. ...

I did a dry run restoring a backup to another instance.  Backup Logs went fine but DBCC Shrinkfile threw an error:

Cannot shrink log file 2 (xxxxxxx_log) because the...

Great and thank you!

Bart,
Yes, I am running in full recovery model.  I did create the new DB from scratch and then it became the subscriber of the old instance.  After the cutover,...

Hi Bart,

The log_reuse_wait says "LOG BACKUP".
The log reader is running as I am seeing data replicated to the subscriber pretty much in real-time.
The recovery model is...