"bare-metal" recovery is our standard way of recovering Intel servers to differing hardware. It also allows us to recover any application (except SQL2005 SP2 it seems!) without having to reload...

Hi John,

Thanks for your help with this problem.

I'm sure your solution would work, but what I am trying to achieve is a simplistic way of recovering a SQL server in...

Hi,

At the time of the backup, all MDFs and LDFs are locked so they are backed up using either native SQL commands or a backup agent. As already mentioned, following...

Hi Lowell,

Thanks for your speedy response once again.

I'm probably not making myself clear here. The fact that a "bare-metal" restore has been done means that all the SQL binaries have...

Hi Lowell,

Thanks for your input to my problem.

The problem I have is not restoring the master database, but rebuilding it. As I am doing a bare-metal recovery, everything has been...

Hi Keith,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I have thought of doing another reinstall of SQL 2005 and SP2. I'm trying to go the "bare-metal" route as this way I don't have...