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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/07/05 02:01
debian mojo (debian_mojo@yahoo.com) writes:
> As a result, the remote database has become full of databases many of
> which are not needed at the moment.
>
> I plan to remove all unwanted databases on the remote server only
> after taking backups. But there's very little space on the remote server
> and as a result i wont be able to use BACKUP commands to create backup
> copies.
>
> I also wont be able to import these databases from the remote server
> to the local server.
>
> I am planning to copy the .mdf and .ldf files from remote server to
> local server. Will that be OK?
Yes. First detach them from the remote server before you copy.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
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