Disaster Recovery Options for Multi - Database- Multi Instance environment

  • I wanted to see what suggestions you might have for Disaster Recovery Options based on the following criteria.

    --Currently running SQL 2012 standard edition

    --We have 18000 databases (same schema across databases)- majority of databases are less than 2gb-- across 64 instances approximately

    --Recovery needs to happen within 1 hour (Not sure that this is realistic

    -- We are building a new data center and building dr from the ground up.

    What I have looked into is:

    1. Transactional Replication: Too Much Data Not viable

    2. AlwaysOn Availability Groups (Need enterprise) Again too many databases and would have to upgrade all instances

    3. Log Shipping is a viable option and the only one I can come up with that would work right now. Might be a management nightmare but with this many databases probably all options with be a nightmare.

    Is there anything else that you can think of that I should look into?

    Thanks in advance for any help provided.

  • Hi There,

    If your infrastucture is virtual you can look at something like SRM (Site Recovery Manager)

    to replicate to DR. We use this method at my current employer

    Corinne

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