|  | Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/15/32 11:45 
Vishal (bajaj.vishal@gmail.com) writes:> I am having issues of efficiency of backing up data from one SQL data
 > base to another.
 >
 > The two servers in questions are on different networks , behind
 > different firewalls. We have MS SQL 2000.
 >
 > On the source data i run a job with the following steps:
 >
 > 1> take trans backup every 4 hrs
 > 2> ftp to the remote server
 > 3> if ftp fails , disable the whole job
 >
 > On the target server I run a job which does the following
 >
 > 1> restore the trans backup with NORECOVERY.
 >
 > If the job fails at target. I will have to go through the whole process
 > of doing a complete backup of the source , restoring it at the other
 > ens and then starting trans-backup again.
 >
 > Also, if we do a failover to the target server, then when we roll back
 > to the source server again we have to da a back-up of the target and
 > restore it on the source server.
 >
 > Is ther a more efficent way of doing this??
 
 I'm not sure exactly the purpose of this home-made log shipping is,
 but could replication be a better alternative?
 
 (Although, I have no idea whether replication can cross your network
 and firewalls.)
 
 
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 Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
 
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