The company I work for has introduced the use of replication, I am in charge of executing multi-server databases on a distributed system. So far going forward with new releases, I have been able to set up replication with a publisher and subscriber on different servers. When the release is completed I backup the executable, along with the databases which includes distribution, master and msdb according to the docs I read from Microsoft about replication.
The problem occurs when I have to roll back to an older release. I perform restoration of databases on both db servers and restore the executable where needed. The databases for replication include the distribution (publisher server), master(as a single usr) and msdb. Master and MSDB are on both db servers. When I refresh replication I do see the publisher and subscriber names. The question here is where do I go from here. I have not had much success after this point. Do I have to execute a snapshot? What are the steps from this point to restore the replication?
Thank you Pete