Chapter 9. Database Environment Basics for Recovery
Whether you implement failover clustering, log shipping, replication, or a combination of these, they cannot supplant a solid backup and recovery plan. Things can—and will—go wrong. Even a well-planned highly available system is subject to user error, administrative error, procedural failure, or a catastrophic hardware failure. Creating, testing, and maintaining a database environment in which little to no data is lost and downtime is entirely avoided in a disaster is no trivial task. Because backup and restore are important, required parts of any disaster recovery plan, your backup and restore strategy should minimize both data loss and downtime. This chapter gives you the basic understanding ...
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