Are you talking about preventing normal users access to viewing the table structure (columns etc.)?

Load Management Studio

Expand Databases

Right-click on your database

Choose Reports, Standard Reports, Disk Usage

Check out how much "unallocated" space (as a %) is in the file. Until this is basically zero...

With the ratio of data to log file size I'm going to guess your database is in full mode and you haven't been backing the log up. This causes...

Full Safety ON (from the mirror with the database being master)

ALTER DATABASE SET PARTNER OFF

RESTORE DATABASE WITH RECOVERY

Full Safety OFF (I think)

ALTER DATABASE SET...

A very simple way to check your logshipping is working is to make a small change in one table on the primary and see if it appears on the secondary...

They're all set to use the same schedule (of every 10 mins) .  I'm guessing the job claims to have failed

According to the monitoring server, the latest file copied and restored was 14:40

BUT

Going to the physical C drive location of the secondary where it's dumping all these trans files from the...

Changes made to the live db are being reflected in the copied db in roughly the timeframe we'd expect so yes I'm fairly sure the log shipping is working.  Plus...