I don't think licenses expire. Once you bought it its yours forever. Support or subscription however expires.

-- Create your new filegroup with a data file on your free drive ---

ALTER DATABASE test

ADD FILEGROUP myNewFileGroup

GO

ALTER DATABASE test

ADD FILE

(

 NAME = myNewFile1,

 FILENAME = 'E:\Data\myNewFile1.mdf',

 SIZE = 1MB,

 MAXSIZE =...

Thanks Sugesh. I found an article that in a way answers my question above. Hope this helps to those with the same query. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/sqlserver/sql2kaud.mspx?pf=true

Thanks guys.

Log shipping should work. You can edit the job schedules log shiping creates. On server A, you can change schedule of log backup job. Then in serve B, edit schedule...