

Launch SQL Server 2012 setup program from installation media.Use for Moving System Databases and Moving User Databases. Some features, such as snapshot isolation and read committed snapshot, might not work. Databases will be started and recovered when accessed. Prevents SQL Server from automatically starting and recovering any database except the master database. When restoring the msdb database start the SQL Server instance with the Trace Flag 3608: Reference: Restore the master Database (Transact-SQL) for more details When restoring the master database start the SQL Server instance from a DOS prompt with the -m parameter.

Restore the most recent backups of the system databases: master, msdb, ( model): Verify that the installation was successful by consulting the setup summary file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup Bootstrap\Logs Setup /QUIET /ACTION=REBUILDDATABASE /INSTANCENAME=InstanceName /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS=accounts Replace the relevant information with the values for your instance.

To stop this crime, I've disabled the tool performing database backups, so now it only does file backups (except the MDF/LDF files). This isn't so much about their contents, but what would happen if they were missing after a restore because of the situation I describe). (I've been researching whether the system databases should be backed up, and the consensus is generally yes because of the data they hold concerning SQL Server in general (e.g. After much investigation, it emerged that the tool used non copy_only backups, thus destroying the log chain on both the system databases, and our own. We have a third-party server backup tool running every 24 hours, which backs up everything (files and database in preparation for a bare-metal restore).
