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Log Shipping

A disaster-recovery method that automatically backs up transaction logs on a primary and restores them on secondary servers.

Definition

Log shipping is simple and inexpensive but has no automatic failover, and data loss equals the time since the last shipped log. Secondaries can be readable in standby mode between restores.

Exam tip

Log shipping offers no automatic failover; choose availability groups when automatic failover is required.

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