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How does SQL Server send transaction log backups?
SQL Server Log shipping allows you to automatically send transaction log backups from a primary database on a primary server instance to one or more secondary databases on separate secondary server instances. The transaction log backups are applied to each of the secondary databases individually.
Why do I need a full transaction log?
From my understanding the only thing that truncates the transaction log is a log backup. A full backup only copies enough of the log so that it is transactionally consistent, because it takes a while for the backup operation to complete & in that time, the pages copied may have changed. You still need your log backups for point in time recovery.
Is the transaction log shipping together with backup job plan?
Obviously, there are logs created by two individual jobs and for the log shipping process only part of logs are being copied to secondary database (log created by backup job plan are excluded). Does this mean that I will have to turn off backup job plan? The log shipping process does its work by taking log backups.
Do you need a full backup for SQL Server?
BTW, right now your backup chain is busted as it misses log. You need to take a full database backup to re-seed the chain properly.
How to configure log shipping initialize the secondary database?
To configure log shipping Initialize the secondary database by restoring a full backup of the primary database on the secondary server. On the primary server, execute sp_add_log_shipping_primary_database to add a primary database. The stored procedure returns the backup job ID and primary ID.
What does log shipping mean in SQL Server?
Log shipping involves copying a database backup and subsequent transaction log backups from the primary (source) server and restoring the database and transaction log backups on one or more secondary (Stand By / Destination) servers.