Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Re: Clusterd db to non clustered.. Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:15:59 +0200 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <4FZTp.55723$_I7.29671@newsfe08.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="DD6dU+BfJNjsjSP4/K/V7w"; logging-data="8904"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1++7CkfG0sqZ80jbuEUk1+/" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FmLSWlU68Og51peS06lDg5SadIo= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:538 Matthew Wells (matthew.wells@firstbyte.net) writes: > Is it possible to do these tasks from a database on a clustered server > to a database on a non clustered server? > > Backup/restore > Replication > Log shipping > Mirroring The first three absolutely. I'm a little uncertain about mirroring, but I can't really see why not. All clustering is about is that if the machine goes down, another machines takes over in a minute. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se Links for SQL Server Books Online: SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx