1. How do I setup SQL log Shipping and why should I care Steve Smith @stevesmithck steve@combined-knowledge.com

3. Key Pointers The Remote farm does not need to be identical in scale terms Consider failover however. What if you make the standby farm read / Write Could be used for maintenance process. Production farm is taken offline for 2 hours whilst patching takes place. User redirected to standby farm Will be Read Only by Default Can be switched to Read / Write …. Carefully consider this !! Alter database [Content db name] set read_write with no_wait

4. Key Pointers - Continued Ensure you replicate any settings on your production farm with your standby farm such as custom solutions / Managed Paths / certificates / web.config changes etc. Use database backup / restore to ensure your service application databases are kept up to date on the standby farm If you have created new Site Collections in the production farm run a dismount / mount command to update the site collection count in the standby farm. Dismount-SPContentDatabase Mount-SPContentDatabase A redirect ( DNS – Load Balancer ) will be needed to send people to the standby farm’s servers.

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