Hello,
I am using SQL Server 2014, SP2, Enterprise edition, on both old and new instances. I am trying to restore a backup (about 360 GB) of a TDE enabled database on to the new instance. The certificate had expired on the source server, so, created a new certificate on source and then restored on to the new instance. I also created the master key on the new instance. I made a copy-only backup of the database and copied on to the server where new instance is located. When I tried to restore the database I keep getting "No backupset selected to be restored" error. Restore Filelistonly and Restore Verifyonly check on backup file come back with no issues on the new instance. However, Restore Headeronly comes back with error below.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 118
RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally.
After this attempt failed, I created a blank database manually and enabled encryption on after running the following in the database context.
CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY
WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256
ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE <cert name>
Now I am trying to restore on top of the new database using SSMS but it is stuck at "Reading backup device header" file for more than an hour.
Please shed some light on this.
Thanks in advance.
Prasad Koukuntla