December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 14m
English
Log shipping configuration, as the name suggests, is a mechanism to keep a database in sync by copying the logs to the remote server. Log shipping, unlike mirroring, is not copying each single transaction, but copies the transactions in batches via transaction log backup on the primary node and log restore on the secondary node. Unlike all previously mentioned features, log shipping does not provide an automatic failover option, so it's considered more as a disaster recovery option than a high availability one.
Log shipping operates on regular intervals where three jobs have to run:
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