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SQL Logshipping 2

Log Shipping is a SQL Server high-availability technology that automates the backup and restore process to create a failover database. It requires specific permissions, SQL Server versions, and configurations, including the full recovery model and a shared folder for transaction log backups. The configuration process involves several steps, including setting up the primary and secondary servers, scheduling backups, and monitoring for failures.

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SQL Logshipping 2

Log Shipping is a SQL Server high-availability technology that automates the backup and restore process to create a failover database. It requires specific permissions, SQL Server versions, and configurations, including the full recovery model and a shared folder for transaction log backups. The configuration process involves several steps, including setting up the primary and secondary servers, scheduling backups, and monitoring for failures.

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Log Shipping

Solution

Log Shipping is a basic level SQL Server high-availability technology that is part of SQL
Server. It is an automated backup and restore process that allows you to create another
copy of your database for failover.

Log shipping involves copying a database backup and subsequent transaction log
backups from the primary (source) server and restoring the database and transaction
log backups on one or more secondary (Stand By / Destination) servers. The Target
Database is in a standby or no-recovery mode on the secondary server(s) which allows
subsequent transaction logs to be backed up on the primary and shipped (or copied) to
the secondary servers and then applied (restored) there.

Log Shipping Permissions


To setup a log-shipping you must have sysadmin rights on the server.

Log Shipping Minimum Requirements


1. SQL Server 2005 or later
2. Standard, Workgroup or Enterprise editions must be installed on all server
instances involved in log shipping.
3. The servers involved in log shipping should have the same case sensitivity
settings.
4. The database must use the full recovery or bulk-logged recovery model
5. A shared folder for copying T-Log backup files
6. SQL Server Agent Service must be configured properly

In addition, you should use the same version of SQL Server on both ends. It is possible
to Log Ship from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008, but you can not do it the opposite way. Also,
since Log Shipping will be primarily used for failover if you have the same versions on
each end and there is a need to failover you at least know you are running the same
version of SQL Server.

Steps to Configure SQL Server Log Shipping


Step 1

Make sure your database is in full or bulk-logged recovery model. You can change the
database recovery model using the below query. You can check the database recovery
model by querying sys.databases

SELECT name, recovery_model_desc FROM sys.databases WHERE name = 'jugal'


USE [master]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [jugal] SET RECOVERY FULL WITH NO_WAIT
GO

Step 2

On the primary server, right click on the database in SSMS and select Properties. Then
select the Transaction Log Shipping Page. Check the "Enable this as primary
database in a log shipping configuration" check box.

Step 3

The next step is to configure and schedule a transaction log backup. Click on Backup
Settings... to do this.

If you are creating backups on a network share enter the network path or for the local
machine you can specify the local folder path. The backup compression feature was
introduced in SQL Server 2008 edition. While configuring log shipping, we can control
the backup compression behavior of log backups by specifying the compression option.
When this step is completed it will create the backup job on the Primary Server.
Step 4

In this step we will configure the secondary instance and database. Click on
the Add... button to configure the Secondary Server instance and database. You can
add multiple servers if you want to setup one to many server log-shipping.
When you click the Add... button it will take you to the below screen where you have to
configure the Secondary Server and database. Click on the Connect... button to
connect to the secondary server. Once you connect to the secondary server you can
access the three tabs as shown below.

Initialize Secondary Database for Log Shipping on SQL


Server
In this step you can specify how to create the data on the secondary server. You have
three options: create a backup and restore it, use an existing backup and restore or do
nothing because you have manually restored the database and have put it into the
correct state to receive additional backups.
Copy Files for Log Shipping for SQL Server
In this tab you have to specify the path of the Destination Shared Folder where the Log
Shipping Copy job will copy the T-Log backup files. This step will create the Copy job on
the secondary server.
Restore Transaction Log for SQL Server Log Shipping
Here you have to specify the database restoring state information and restore schedule.
This will create the restore job on the secondary server.
Step 5

In this step we will configure Log Shipping Monitoring which will notify us in case of any
failure. Please note Log Shipping monitoring configuration is optional.
Click on Settings... button which will take you to the "Log Shipping Monitor
Settings" screen. Click on Connect ... button to setup a monitor server. Monitoring can
be done from the source server, target server or a separate SQL Server instance. We
can configure alerts on source / destination server if respective jobs fail. Lastly we can
also configure how long job history records are retained in the MSDB database. Please
note that you cannot add a monitor instance once log shipping is configured.
Step 6

Click on the OK button to finish the Log Shipping configuration and it will show you the
below screen.
Next Steps

 As Log Shipping does not support automatic failover, plan for some down time
and a manual failover
 Once you failover, check for Orphan Users and fix as needed
 For VLDBs it is recommended that you manually restore the database instead of
using the wizard to create the full backup.

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