applying transaction logs from a crashed server

I would like to know the process to rebuilt a new server if the current
server crashes. I can install the server with the same service pack level,
then restore the system databases and then the User databases from the
backups on the new server.
How do we bring in and apply the Transaction logs from the crashed server to
the new server?You mean "the last" log backup? I.e., the log records produced since you produced your most recent
log backup?
It depends on how the server crashed. If the SQL Server is still available, then you just do
BACKUP LOG crashedDb TO .. WITH NO_TRUNCATE
If that SQL Server isn't accessible, then you do the following:
On a working server, create a new database.
Stop that SQL Server.
Delete the database files.
Copy the ldf file from the crashed server in place of the ldf file which you deleted in above step.
Start this SQL Server
BACKUP LOG dbname to ... WITH NO_TRUNCATE
You now have a chain of log backups up until the crash which you can use for your restore. Of
course, all this assumes that you do log backups in the first place and that you can access the ldf
file for your crashed database.
--
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/tibor_karaszi
"sharman" <sharman@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I would like to know the process to rebuilt a new server if the current
> server crashes. I can install the server with the same service pack level,
> then restore the system databases and then the User databases from the
> backups on the new server.
> How do we bring in and apply the Transaction logs from the crashed server to
> the new server?