First of all, Great webcast today. My question is, I have everything up and running and would like to know what to do when the machine my primary is on quits or has a some type of disaster. Do I need to manually run recovery on each db that was mirrored? I'm not currently running a witness.
thanks
No, you don't need to recover anything but depending on which mode you are running you will need to iether manually initiate a failover from server A to B or force the service from server A to B because you are running without a witness.
do you know what mode you are running, high-performance or high-protection?
|||Everything runs in high Safty and just to be clear I'm looking at the scenario where the primary just dies.|||ok, so you're running high protection mode.
I will have to correct myself here first, running in either high performance or high protection requires that you force service from server A to B. In books Online, look up the topics:
Forced Service (with Possible Data Loss)
and
How to: Force Service in a Database Mirroring Session (Transact-SQL)
these will explain in more detail than I ever could!
Hope this helps
|||This is correct. If the principal cannot be contacted, then the way to make the databases available on the mirror is to turn off mirroring or to issue a "FORCE_SERVICE_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS"
Thanks,
Mark
