Many thanks for your comments, I will test again using the 4 backup stripes as recommended and see if this improves the run duration. It maybe that I had over...

I thought that maybe the case but was hoping it wasn't. I was thinking that the uses of multiple threads would alllow it to write in parallel to the...

Thanks for the reply I did try it with 6 stripes as well and it was a matter of maybe 5 or 10 seconds difference on a 30 Gb database.

I...

Thanks for the question, there are 4 CPU's.

Whenever I have set up log shipping previously I have always started by creating the necessary shares on the primary and sceondary servers and granting the required privilges on those...

There is no easy answer to the question you have asked. What is required before you jump into this project is some careful analysis of your existing SQL Server...