To migrate the full-text indexes you should script them out and run them on
the destination server.

To migrate built catalogs review the following:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240867/en-us

For sql 2005 do the following:

ALTER DATABASE database_name SET OFFLINE on both source and destination

stop msftesql on both
copy the catalog

alter the database files on the destination server to point to the catalog
location

ie, ALTER DATABASE database_name MODIFY FILE ( NAME = sys_fulltext,
FILENAME = 'c:\dump')

start msftesql

ALTER DATABASE database_name SET ONLINE

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Hi everyone,


I noticed that when I did an export on a database (lets call it DB_a)
to another one (lets call it DB_b) it did not copy over the full text
index (FTI) that was on DB_a.
Is there anyway I can get the FTI from DB_a to be copied over to DB_b
without having to rebuild the FTI on DB_b??

Would appreciate any comments/hints/user-experience that you may like
to share.

Thanking you,
Al.