InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comTue, 21 May 2013 22:02:50 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic927290-1549-1.aspxFor future reference - I have solved the biggest problem I was having with the secondary database being stuck in a restoring state for large databases. If I start the job (from remote session), and my session is disconnected it causes the database to be in this stuck restoring state. Best plan is then to not 'kick start' the process myself but rather let a schedule take care of it.Wed, 26 May 2010 02:14:59 GMTJinx-640161http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic927290-1549-1.aspxHi,Perhaps someone can suggest a tweak, change or alternative to the custom log shipping process I have setup. A custom solution was needed because we only have Standard Edition that does not have backup compression and we need to move quite a large amount of data to a remove site.One of the issues is that when I try to restore the full database from primary to secondary (if the log shipping process has been interrupted for some reason), the secondary is often stuck with the message 'restoring' and I cannot apply log backups after that. The current process using SSIS is:Backup primaryZip backup with 7zCopy zip to secondaryUnzipRestore backup to secondaryFor a database that is in the region of 120 gb (compresses to just a few gb) this process takes about 10.5 hours, and most often gets the database stuck with restoring message mentioned earlier.When restoring a transaction log the size runs at about 1 - 4 gb depending on the time of day and often fails.The whole process if not at all fault tolerant and 'falls over' with the slightest problem.Is there anything else I should take into account, or does log shipping generally require a fair amount of manual intervention?Any suggestion and info from the experts out there would be great!:-DThanks,Jinx.Tue, 25 May 2010 02:32:14 GMTJinx-640161