Fellow SQLers,

On SQL 2016 Standard

I am planning to rebuild a replication.

The primary db is 1.3 tb. So, the snapshot process will be a monster.

The subscripber will not be exact as publisher - not all tables, not all fields for some tables, and some data is filtered.

I was reading Initialize a Transactional Subscription from a Backup.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/replication/initialize-a-transactional-subscription-from-a-backup?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=sql-server-ver15

I am interpreting that I would not be able to use this approach.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

MG