Restoring Master DB or transfering logins etc

Hi there, I'm hoping you can help a SQL novice......
i need to move the SQL installs for a couple of our SQL7 servers (and sadly
no, they cant be upgraded).
i've restored the DB's no problems but i'm having problems with the master
DB and/ or its contents. i want to get all the logins, agents jobs etc from
the old servers to the new ones. restoring the master DB would do this, but
unfortunately, the drive structure on the new servers doesn match that of the
old and so the locations of the other SQL built in DB's (model, MSDB, tempdb)
is now different. if i restore the Master DB (in single user mode obviously)
the services fail to then re-start because they cant locate these DB's.
so my question.... is there any way to restart SQL service post a master
restore, without it looking for these DB's so i can then modify the file
location properties of these DB?
OR
is there any way to get stuff like the security logins, SQL agent jobs etc
from one server to another without restoring the Master DB?
many thanks for you help and advice.
Hi
There are lots discussion about such issues , try to search on.
It's my way how I do it
1) Backup all user and system databases on the old server
2) Script out all logins (MS has provide two SP to script it out)
3) Script all jobs/dts packages
4) Restore all user databases
5) Run the output of two MS store procedures on destination server
6) Run the output of jobs script.
7) Re-create all dts packages
"J Hotch" <jonathan.hotchkiss-remove-@.tesco.net> wrote in message
news:990A6094-3F08-4731-BF71-EAD9D0B343AF@.microsoft.com...
> Hi there, I'm hoping you can help a SQL novice......
> i need to move the SQL installs for a couple of our SQL7 servers (and
sadly
> no, they cant be upgraded).
> i've restored the DB's no problems but i'm having problems with the master
> DB and/ or its contents. i want to get all the logins, agents jobs etc
from
> the old servers to the new ones. restoring the master DB would do this,
but
> unfortunately, the drive structure on the new servers doesn match that of
the
> old and so the locations of the other SQL built in DB's (model, MSDB,
tempdb)
> is now different. if i restore the Master DB (in single user mode
obviously)
> the services fail to then re-start because they cant locate these DB's.
> so my question.... is there any way to restart SQL service post a master
> restore, without it looking for these DB's so i can then modify the file
> location properties of these DB?
> OR
> is there any way to get stuff like the security logins, SQL agent jobs etc
> from one server to another without restoring the Master DB?
> many thanks for you help and advice.
|||http://vyaskn.tripod.com/moving_sql_server.htm Moving DBs
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=314546 Moving DB's between Servers
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=224071 Moving SQL Server Databases
to a New Location with Detach/Attach
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=221465 Using WITH MOVE in a
Restore
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=246133 How To Transfer Logins and
Passwords Between SQL Servers
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=298897 Mapping Logins & SIDs after a
Restore
http://www.dbmaint.com/SyncSqlLogins.asp Utility to map logins to
users
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=168001 User Logon and/or Permission
Errors After Restoring Dump
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=240872 How to Resolve Permission
Issues When a Database Is Moved Between SQL Servers
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scri...p?scriptid=599
Restoring a .mdf
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=307775 Disaster Recovery Articles
for SQL Server
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"J Hotch" <jonathan.hotchkiss-remove-@.tesco.net> wrote in message
news:990A6094-3F08-4731-BF71-EAD9D0B343AF@.microsoft.com...
> Hi there, I'm hoping you can help a SQL novice......
> i need to move the SQL installs for a couple of our SQL7 servers (and
> sadly
> no, they cant be upgraded).
> i've restored the DB's no problems but i'm having problems with the master
> DB and/ or its contents. i want to get all the logins, agents jobs etc
> from
> the old servers to the new ones. restoring the master DB would do this,
> but
> unfortunately, the drive structure on the new servers doesn match that of
> the
> old and so the locations of the other SQL built in DB's (model, MSDB,
> tempdb)
> is now different. if i restore the Master DB (in single user mode
> obviously)
> the services fail to then re-start because they cant locate these DB's.
> so my question.... is there any way to restart SQL service post a master
> restore, without it looking for these DB's so i can then modify the file
> location properties of these DB?
> OR
> is there any way to get stuff like the security logins, SQL agent jobs etc
> from one server to another without restoring the Master DB?
> many thanks for you help and advice.
|||thankyou Uri and Andrew, you've both given me plenty to work with.
many thanks
"Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:

> http://vyaskn.tripod.com/moving_sql_server.htm Moving DBs
> http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=314546 Moving DB's between Servers
> http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=224071 Moving SQL Server Databases
> to a New Location with Detach/Attach
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=221465 Using WITH MOVE in a
> Restore
> http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=246133 How To Transfer Logins and
> Passwords Between SQL Servers
> http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=298897 Mapping Logins & SIDs after a
> Restore
> http://www.dbmaint.com/SyncSqlLogins.asp Utility to map logins to
> users
> http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=168001 User Logon and/or Permission
> Errors After Restoring Dump
> http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=240872 How to Resolve Permission
> Issues When a Database Is Moved Between SQL Servers
> http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scri...p?scriptid=599
> Restoring a .mdf
> http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=307775 Disaster Recovery Articles
> for SQL Server
>
> --
> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
>
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