I am using msmdarch to backup an Analysis Services database and am restoring
it to another server. The cubes in the database have many roles and it takes
forever to restore because it has to validate the roles as part of the
restoration process. Is there any way to prevent the roles from being
validated during the restore?

Thanks!

Have you seen the operations guide?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...ntain/anservog.
mspx

It contains a lot of good information including a section on release
management which may be of assistance in this situation.

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Darren Gosbell [MCSD]
Blog: http://www.geekswithblogs.net/darrengosbell

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