Good Question,

Log Shipping was one of the other choices\alternatives for us.

I've used log shipping in the past, and in my experience, it seemed fragile...

It would stop shipping logs, and we'd have to reseed quite regularly etc.

this was a main reason that I decided to move to Mirroring as opposed to Log Shipping. It appeared to be more robust.

is this a reality? (honestly, probably not)...

I do have to say though....mirroring is working out quite nicely for us. I really have no complaints.

GAJ