Hello,
To continue within the context of a previous question, I want to be able to backup / restore an MS SQL 2000 upwards (2000, 2005 and 2008) database, using DMO (MSSQL 2000 version) and/or SMO (MSSQL 2005/2008 versions) library components. The merge replicated mssql 2000 (or 2005 or 2008) database is live, with many Windows Mobile clients with active subscriptions.
If I perform backups & restores programmatically, will such actions affect my merge replication setup in any way, i.e. the Windows Mobile clients holding the subscription and the MSSQL holding the publication ? Say, I get a backup, then I delete the database (say it is corrupted) and I perform a restore on top of it or using a new name. Will this affect the already subscribed mobile client databases ?
What do you suggest as the most optimum scenario to programmatically take backups and perform restores on live merge replicated databases ? Can this be done or we need to take the database offilne somehow (how?) in order to perform the backup/restore operation ?
Please keep in mind that we use both GUIDs and Auto-increment fields for primary keys in our database replicated tables).
Thank you for your time,
Panos
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