How to: Back Up a Database Master Key:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337546.aspx How to: Restore a Database Master Key:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337511.aspx --
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[quoted text, click to view] "Rogers" <naissani@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Just thinking about disaster recovery, if I want to move the database into
> another server then how I get the Master Key, Certificate and Symmetric
> Keys? if I restore into another box will it work or I have to to do couple
> of configuration settings?
>
> Thanks
>
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