We're starting our migration from SQL Server 2012 to 2014 and are running into some issues moving databases.
- SQL 2012 is running on Windows 2008. New servers with Windows 2012R2 are being used for SQL 2014
- On SQL 2012, data is stored at M:\. On SQL 2014, data will be stored at M:\Data.
- The plan has been to backup each database one at a time, copy the .bak file, then restore on new server.
- I am local Admin on Windows server and SysAdmin in SQL Server. I have full rights to all drives.
- I have tried running SSMS as Administrator and still get the same issue
- I can create an empty db.
- I created an empty db and successfully imported the data from SQL2012.
Here's the problem:
- When I attempt to restore, I get message "The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing <name> database". I can get past this if I do "WITH REPLACE". However, this throws another error, "The operating system returned the error '5(Access is denied.)' while attempting 'RestoreContainer::ValidateTargetForCreation' on 'M:\<databaseName>.mdf'.
Anyone have insight into what's happening? How can we do a restore of data? Import is fine for small databases, but will take some time for large ones.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual C# MVP
INETA Community Speaker
www.craigberntson.com
