I am currently trying to move our production software (Shipping, ERP, WMS, etc) over to the new onsite server we have.
I am first trying to move the Shipworks DBS over, just as a test (it's the smallest DBS). I have yet to get a method to work.
First, the Backup and Restore method has yet to work, because it gives me an error saying "a file activation error occurred" I'm assuming this is because the new server can't reach the data and log files of the original server. But it does make me curious, when restoring any SQL DBS, do you need access to the Data and Log files. Seems to me that if you lose those, you're just screwed if you only have a .bak.
I am going to try to restore using the .bak file, and share the data and log files to the new server so it can access it and see if that will work.
If anyone has any recommendations, they would...