Log Shipping Problem

I am implementing Log Shipping. I have the transaction logs copying to
the standby server and applying to the standby database with no errors.

However, I am having problems with the role change. I am using the
following article/link as my guide:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._1_013_9t0p.asp

The DTS package that I am to create to copy the logins from the current
primary server to the current secondary server is not working.

The job that I created (that encompasses BCP Out, Copy File, and
Transfer Logins) fails at the Transfer Logins step. That is the step
that calls the DTS package. Even though the Copy File step shows as
'successful', the file is definitely not on the standby server.

Here is the error message from the Transfer Login step:
Executed as user: SERVERNAME\Administrator. DTSRun: Loading...
DTSRun: Executing... DTSRun OnStart:
DTSStep_OMWCustomTasks.OMWTransferLogins_1 DTSRun OnError:
DTSStep_OMWCustomTasks.OMWTransferLogins_1, Error = -2147467259
(80004005) Error string: Unspecified error Error source:
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) Package Help file:
sqldts80.hlp Help context: 700 Error Detail Records:
Error: -2147467259 (80004005); Provider Error: 0 (0) Error
string: Unspecified error Error source: Microsoft Data
Transformation Services (DTS) Package Help file: sqldts80.hlp
Help context: 700 DTSRun OnFinish:
DTSStep_OMWCustomTasks.OMWTransferLogins_1 DTSRun: Package execution
complete. Process Exit Code 1. The step failed.

Both servers are running Server 2003. Both databases are SQL Server
2000 with SP3.

I have followed the steps in the article. Am I missing something? Or,
have I misinterpreted something? I would appreciate any help you could
provide.

Thanks in advance,
JennieI purchased Allan Hirt's "SQL Server 2000 High Availability" last
night. It has an entire chapter (72 pages!) devoted to log shipping. It
has slightly different instructions for setting up the
post-configuration tasks - as compared to the Microsoft article that I
had been following. His instructions work!

If you are implementing log shipping, I highly recommend this book!

Jennie

Log Shipping copy with compression

I've got several secondary servers setup against my production server, and
working fine. However, one is across a t-1, and the file copying can really
effect latency across this link.
I've been searching far an wide for a "replicator" that has a client server
component, that can do streaming compression. TRNs compress down incrediably
well. I could use a util to zip them to a unc, and then unzip on the other
side, but this seems dumb. Why oh why doesn't SMB support compression...we
have gone backwards since the z-modem days .
I'm trying to get rsync to work using cygwin, but of course it is a pain in
the butt. Does anyone know of affoardable software that does this seamly
simple task. I'm about to program my own.
Compression has been considered on the packet level, but the reason that it
is not implemented is that in general the data travelling across the wire is
binary and the compression ratio and cost involved in compressing binary
data outweighs the savings in doing so. Compressing purely textual data does
provide much better compression.
Your best bet is to zip then before sending, and then unzip them on the
other end.
"et" <et@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:83CF2440-9764-47D7-8163-AE47C3106035@.microsoft.com...
> I've got several secondary servers setup against my production server, and
> working fine. However, one is across a t-1, and the file copying can
really
> effect latency across this link.
> I've been searching far an wide for a "replicator" that has a client
server
> component, that can do streaming compression. TRNs compress down
incrediably
> well. I could use a util to zip them to a unc, and then unzip on the other
> side, but this seems dumb. Why oh why doesn't SMB support compression...we
> have gone backwards since the z-modem days .
> I'm trying to get rsync to work using cygwin, but of course it is a pain
in
> the butt. Does anyone know of affoardable software that does this seamly
> simple task. I'm about to program my own.
>
|||As I recall Windows 2003 was supposed to offer SMB copying of NTFS compressed
files from server to server without uncompressing in the middle.
But as I've never seen that feature advertised, I'm guessing it never made the
cut before release.

> I've been searching far an wide for a "replicator" that has a client server
> component, that can do streaming compression. TRNs compress down incrediably
> well. I could use a util to zip them to a unc, and then unzip on the other
> side, but this seems dumb. Why oh why doesn't SMB support compression...we
> have gone backwards since the z-modem days .
> I'm trying to get rsync to work using cygwin, but of course it is a pain in
> the butt. Does anyone know of affoardable software that does this seamly
> simple task. I'm about to program my own.
>
Neil Pike. Protech Computing Ltd
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