Hi.
I got a MS SQL Database with a Full recovery model. We also implement log shipping to an off site.
Been testing BE 2014 & agent for application & database.
Hope someone can shed some light on this.
Question
1. As I understand for MS SQL Database we can have either a Full, Differential or Full-Copy Backup.
1.1 Does the Full backup truncate and backup the MS SQL Logs ?
1.2 Does the Differential truncate and backup the MS SQL Logs ?
1.3 Does the Full-copy truncate and backup the MS SQL Logs ?
2. As I understand the Full-Copy backup does not affect other backup jobs. For our Database we initially plan just to do a Full-Copy, so we can use the built in MS SQL backup running independently for period of time.
2.1 Can I implement a Full-Copy backup via Backup Exec 2014 and run a seperate backup using th Built in MS SQL backup (at a different schedule) using MS SQL Studio?
---> I get a lot of feedback that this is not the best practice. However, we just need to use this for a time being.
3. Can I still implement log shipping even using Backup Exec 2014 to backup my MS SQL Database and logs?
3.1 Will backup exec affect or mess up my log shipping?
3.2 Would it be possible to do a full-copy backup and still implement log shipping without changing anything on my database.
3.3 I would want my log shipping to be automatic without any manual interventions, How should I setup my backups for MS SQL?
Thanks,
Paul