I know I'm not the first one to encounter this, so I'm going to ask the question but first let me describe the scenario. We have two primary servers, one for the database and one as the users' terminal server. We also have two backup servers located offsite, one for the database backup and one for the terminal server backup. We have been testing SQL Server log shipping from the primary database server to the backup database server. It seems to work really well and meets our backup frequency requirements. However, I would like to take this a step further and have a duplicate SAP B1 installation with add-ons, all completely configured and ready to go in the event one of the primary servers has catastrophic failure. In that event, we would just shut down the primary server and direct all traffic to the backup server. What is the best way to accomplish this? Do we need to install B1, all of the add-ons from scratch, and reconfigure on the backup to match the primary server? Could we take a backup image of the primary and restore the entire image on the backup, then just turn on log shipping to keep them somewhat in sync? Is there a better solution that I am not aware of? We are just trying to implement a solution with quick recovery in the event of a primary server disaster.
thanks in advance