currently the SQL 2005 transaction replication is running on the production server well.
The pusblisher and distributor are at the same server.
The data in the pubisher will replicated to another 3 subscribers.
Then now I need to migrate the publisher and distributor to another new server where the new server will take over the production server. The new server will be configurate as same configuration (same IP,and sql instnace name) with the production server. So the 3 subscribers server remain same and did not do the migration.
How to set the transaction replication back at new server for publisher and distributor let said I want to skip the the Initialize Subscriptions part which will take many hours to run?
Can I just backup the publisher database and restore it to new server then i configurate back the transaction replication setting within the 3 subscribers?