Thursday, March 22, 2012

Create standby database without backup/restore

I would like to create a standby database without backup restore.

We currently have a continous access storage ( disk duplication)but I would like to change to logshipping instead.

The database is 1 TB large and backup and restoring would take at least 2 days.

And we already have the datafile duplicated , soI would like to use these datafiles.

How can this be done?

Have you tried to issue:

BACKUP DATABASE <mydatabase> WITH NORECOVERY

This will place the database in a recovering state where you can apply transaction logs, as long as you have log backups which contain the next LSN needing to be applied.

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