Open source or low cost “log shipping” program
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09-06-2019 - |
Question
I have written a log shipping program a number of times. It is a simple program that is used to maintain a warm fail over box for SQL Server.
It has two pieces. On the live dB server it:
- Does full and transaction backups and removes old files
On the backup server it:
- Copies the backups from the live box
- Restores the backups or trans into databases that are set to recovery
- zips the backups
- deletes them based on retention
If there is a failure, the program can go through each database on the backup server and set them to active.
I am looking for an open source or low cost program that does this.
Solution
MS SQL server 2005 and 2008 already support this.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188698.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188698(SQL.90).aspx
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