daily backup and log shipping

Hi,
I am in the process of setting up log shipping for a large database ~ 1GB over VPN and slow WAN link.
I intend to setup and sync the servers on main office and ship after that, the warm standby db to remote site.
My question is how the daily full backups of database will afect my log shipping.
To keep this servers in sync I intend to use only daily transaction logs backups/restores. I do not want to copy a full backup of 1GB daily over the WAN. However at local site I still want to perform a daily full backup.
As I know when a full backup run it will also truncate the transaction logs, so if these large daily full backups will not be copied and restored over the WAN, the warm standby server will run out of sync. This is because a part of transaction log that will be truncated when full backup is done will not be restored to remote site.
Is there any way to do full backups after initial sync without truncating the transaction logs? Has anyone an answer to my problem?
Thank you,
Zorba
Zorba,
A full database backup does not truncate the transaction log. When you start log shipping, you can make as many full backups of the primary database as you want - it will not affect log shipping. However, you cannot make both a full database backup and a transaction log backup of the same database at the same time.
Hope this helps,
Ron
Ron Talmage
SQL Server MVP
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Hi,
I am in the process of setting up log shipping for a large database ~ 1GB over VPN and slow WAN link.
I intend to setup and sync the servers on main office and ship after that, the warm standby db to remote site.
My question is how the daily full backups of database will afect my log shipping.
To keep this servers in sync I intend to use only daily transaction logs backups/restores. I do not want to copy a full backup of 1GB daily over the WAN. However at local site I still want to perform a daily full backup.
As I know when a full backup run it will also truncate the transaction logs, so if these large daily full backups will not be copied and restored over the WAN, the warm standby server will run out of sync. This is because a part of transaction log that will be truncated when full backup is done will not be restored to remote site.
Is there any way to do full backups after initial sync without truncating the transaction logs? Has anyone an answer to my problem?
Thank you,
Zorba