our database is copied via a snapshot replication then pushed to backup sql server. That's the bit that is time-consuming - it takes several hours to complete unfortunately, but does...

I thought this was the case. I've gone down the replication route too but it is quite time-consuming for a large database. It would be great if this mirroring technology...

Hi, so can Mirroring be used to keep an up-to-date copy of the database to be user for reporting queries by the web application?