Downtime is not a option unfortunately. Data is allowed to be a min behind, but never unavailable. It is a financial system so we can allow a delay but never...

Thanks for the advice Ramdas. That would be the route that we will follow.

Thanks for the replies.

As I also understood it log shipping from 2000 to 2008 can be done using no recovery, but the 2008 db would not be accessible.

What...