How do you quiesce
the farm?
1. From
Central Administration, Operations, select "Quiesce Farm."
2.
Enter the number of minutes in which you want the farm to be fully quiesced and
click "Start Quiescing."
How do you
"un-quiesce" (reset) a farm:
1. From
Central Administration, Operations, select "Quiesce Farm."
2.
Click "Close Quiescing."
Turn off SharePoint
Services
This will stop the connections to some of the databases. If
you try to detach any of the databases you will find that some will have
connections active.
In case of the content databases you will probably find that
the connections to the have already been taken care of
Either way you will need to stop some of the SharePoint
services in order to get the search databases and config database totally
disconnected.
You can either stop the services through the Central
Administration, or you can do it at the Services Console.
To stop the connections to the existing databases stop the
following services:
1. Office SharePoint Search
Service
2. Windows SharePoint Services
Administration
3. Windows SharePoint Services
Search
4. Windows SharePoint Services
Timer
5. Windows SharePoint Services
Tracing
6. Windows SharePoint Services
VSS Writer
7. World Wide Web Publishing
Service
After the services are stopped, you should be able to detach
the databases that you are looking to move.
After detaching the databases navigate to where the data and
log files are being stored and copy them to your destination.
Reattach your databases.
Restart your services.
Un-quiesce the farm
