"MittyKom" wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I have servers A, B and C with databases. Server A is a Publisher and Server
> B is the Distributor/Subscriber. Server C is a Subscriber. Server A
> replicates 7 publications to both server B and C. Initially when the
> publications were very small, there were snapshot replications from A to both
> B and C. Thereafter there have been transactional replications. The total
> size of the databases has grown to about 30G.
>
> My problem is I want to replace server C with a new server D. I have only 12
> hrs to do this. If I do a snapshot replication to server D, it might take me
> about 60hrs which I can’t do as this has to be done on a Sunday and ready for
> Monday morning. I have a 150K pipe. I would like to avoid breaking the
> replication on server B if possible. How can I do this replication within
> 12hours without breaking replication on server B?
>
> Currently:
>
> A>>>B
> A>>>C
>
> Future:
>
> A>>>B
> A>>>D
>
> Thank you in advance.