Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/15/07 22:47

(danceli@gmail.com) writes:
> Now I still can schedule a job for hourly full backup on server A, but
> i have no idea how to schedule a job for hourly full restore dbs to
> server B.

ALTER DATBASE db SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
RESTORE DATAHASE dh FROM DISK='locationofbackup'
ALTER DATABASE db SET MULTI_USER

Then use Enterprise Manager or Mgmt Studio to create a job, with this
as the job step and set up a schedule.

Of course, log shipping would be better, but if the databases are small,
less then 1 GB, that's probably not worth the hassle.


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