Regarding the Monday through Saturday full restore with NORECOVERY; will it actually do a restore (hence taking 4+ hours) or does it merely set it up for the partial and...

In the scenario, we would do a full on Sunday night and a differential each weekday and Saturday. However, it sounds like after you do the full, the database...

No, I will have to research that. Do you have any good sources for that?

There are tables that are being updated when reports are ran, so the users have write capability.

We have a 90gb database that we need to keep current (for offline processing). It takes 1 hour to copy it across the network and then 4 hours to...

But what if all you want to do is a differential restore each evening from one database to another and not a full restore each time?