Hello everyone,
We have deployed an SQL2012 farm for providing maximum high availability with Always On availability groups containing critical databases in synchronous commit mode (1 primary replica + 1 secondary replica).
My thread would be rather a pointing to the right direction than problem as we are now looking a way to have a continuous backup on databases to be also protected against user errors. The main reason is that the databases are in production while under development as well, and we must make sure that under no circumstance a single transaction is lost. What products/solutions do you suggest or worked with?
I would be interested on how this could be achieved using SQL faetures, Transact-SQL / Jobs as well as if anyone of you already had experience with a third party solution.
I have already looked after:
Symantec continuous backup server: seems to be true CDP, but never tested it or worked with.
VEEAM 6.5: Unfortunately it is only near-continuous and not true-continuous backup solution
Transaction logging: I have seen a couple of people combining database backups with "synchronizations" every 15' and then replaying the remaining transaction logs into the database in case of failure. Would this be a pain in the ass?
Thank you in advance,
Mat.
Mate