HI All,
WE have configured Log Shipping on our SQL Server 2008 R2 server from PR to DR. Now we are planning to Mock DR Drill. For this our app team are considering following Scenario.
1) They want to do some read write operations on the DR Slave server to test app functionality and DR Data. For this do we need to Break log shipping and after app team does their testing We have to re-enable the log shipping. Please suggest us follwoing
1) steps to cancel the Log shipping in proper way
2) if we shutdown DR server and take a file system backup and start SQL Server on slave server and stop log shipping jobs and enable databases to recovery mode and after app team completes their activity again shutdown the DR instance and restore earlier taken cold backup of file system and bring up the instance and enabling log shipping job would work? Please suggest.
or do we have any better solution in this case?
Regards,
Varun