>> Those do not appear to be very challenging requirements. You could >> probably even do this without any of the built-in replication at all >> but with just incremental backups. How have you currently configured >> your backups? Do you notice a performance impact when you run a full >> backup? Do you notice a performance impact when you run a transaction >> log backup? > >The current schedule for backups is a full backup at 3am for the group >of databases and then a transactional backup every hour from 7am to >10pm during the week. > >As far as the performance of these, I'll have to figure that out. > >> For performance size doesn't matter all that much. What matters is >> update volume. What is the transaction log volume per hour? How long >> does it take to apply (replay) that transaction log volume currently? > >Hmm... Those are questions I don't know how to answer. However, if >I'm understanding where your question process is going, you think >having a process that would copy and apply the transaction logs on the >SQL 2005 server might be a safer idea? That's an interesting idea! >How would I accurately monitor those metrics? > >As I said before, there are a maximum of 18 simultaneous users based >on licenses, then there are reports that can run on the data at any >time. The office is generally open for a 9-10 hour period each day, >not including weekends. I *could* see if it would be possible to have >as much as a 12 hour lag between the systems but I doubt that would >fly. > >Thanks for the line of thought! >Hatton
The other option suggested seems to be "log shipping", I'm not sure performance-wise, it's meaningfully superior to replication. A couple of things to consider, implementation-wise, which one might be more doable; future repeatable solution both for the client and developer/consultant... and cost? Also, let's remember it's always eaier to throw out theory than real-world experience. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:319387 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
