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Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery

You're reading from   Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery Implement tried-and-true high availability and disaster recovery solutions with SQL Server

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802597
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ahmad Osama Ahmad Osama
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Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Preface
1. Getting Started with SQL Server HA and DR 2. Transactional Replication FREE CHAPTER 3. Monitoring Transactional Replication 4. AlwaysOn Availability Groups 5. Managing AlwaysOn Availability Groups 6. Configuring and Managing Log Shipping Appendix

Introduction


Log shipping is one of the oldest disaster recovery solutions available in SQL Server. Log shipping automatically ships the transaction log backups of the specified database from a primary instance to one or more secondary instances. The secondary instances restore the transaction log backups individually, thereby maintaining a copy of the primary database.

In this lesson, we'll learn to configure, manage, and monitor log shipping.

A typical log shipping configuration consists of a primary SQL Server instance and one or more secondary SQL Server instance. The following diagram shows a log shipping configuration with a primary SQL Server instance, P, and two secondary SQL Server instances: S1 and S2:

Figure 6.1: A log shipping configuration

The steps performed to log ship the HR database shown in the diagram are as follows:

  1. A SQL Server agent backup job at the primary instance P performs a transaction log backup of the HR database and copies it to the backup share location.

    The backup...

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