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Initialize Subscriber from Differential Backup

ReplTalk Inside Replication, ReplTalk Blog, Try This August 25, 2020

My colleague Lubín Hidalgo Carro, Microsoft SQL Support Engineer, was helping a customer initialize the Transactional Replication subscriber via backup\restore method as documented here and on docs.microsoft. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/repltalk/2010/03/16/deep-dive-on-initialize-from-backup-for-transactional-replication/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/replication/initialize-a-transactional-subscription-from-a-backup The main steps shown below are to create the publication, change allow init from backup, then take a full backup. Create the publication using user interface
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ReplTip – Subscribe to “all” restriction using “Initialize with backup”

Chris Skorlinski [MSFT] Inside Replication March 8, 2015

ReplTip – Subscribe to “all” restriction using “Initialize with backup” Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services I ran into a couple of challenges using the Backup\Restore method to setup a SQL Server Replication Subscriber.  In particular, using this method you are unable to subscribe or un-subscribe to an individual article.  Using Backup\Restore you mush
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How to: Initialize a Transactional Subscription from a Backup with Multiple Backup Files

ReplTalk Try This December 5, 2010

Below is a slight modification to the How to: Initialize a Transactional Subscription from a Backup steps to handle Publisher database backups to multiple BAK FILES. 1)       Execute sp_addpublication (Transact-SQL) at the Publisher on the publication database. Specify a value of true for @allow_initialize_from_backup = N’true’ and @immediate_sync = N’true’ 2)       Create a backup of
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