Greetings, we are moving our SQL Server 2012 database environment to new storage. We have a distributed environment where we have our application databases on 1 server, transactional replication of our app databases to a second server for reporting and a third server for the distribution server. I am wondering what the best practice would be for doing this. The steps below are what I am considering:
1) Backup databases
2) either a restore or ALTER DATABASE MODIFY FILE?
The problem is replication. I need to remove it and have done so on the publisher using sp_ReplicationDBOption setting the publisher to false. What needs to be done on the Distribution server (Stop SQL Agent?) and then on the subsciber database, what needs to be done there? Thank you.