No, assuming your network is ok your data should be continuously available, but if you're looking to offload read-only work to a secondary replica do bear in mind that there...

😀 I'm covering my back.

If you can afford Enterprise Edition, then AlwaysOn Availability Groups might be suitable.

If you need a cheap option that can be unavailable intermittently, then log-shipping might work for you.

Yep, sorry, I did know that but there...

I'd love to go, but no budget. It looks great.

Sorry to hear that, below86.

In essence the Data Catalog is an index of the data sets that might be produced by your organization, with the information about the data filled in by the producer...

I also much prefer native backups.

Oh no, sorry to get your hopes up, I think I phrased it badly. I used the Active Directory settings in the MAP toolkit (rather than scanning an IP range)....

I've only done it using Active Directory rather than an IP range but when I got that screen it took a while for any numbers to appear. Have you clicked...

You've found the cause then! You say your cluster only has two nodes; does it have a file-share witness or anything? If not, you probably need one.

See here[/url]- scroll down...

Aww :-D.

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If appropriate for your environment, check that Instant File Initialization is enabled.

https://www.brentozar.com/blitz/instant-file-initialization/

When you Googled the error message, did any of the results help? Which ones have you already tried?