Log Shipping Requirements

Log Shipping Requirements

Log shipping has the following requirements:
* SQL Server 2005 Standard, SQL Server 2005 Workgroup, SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, or a later version, must be installed on all server instances involved in log shipping.
* The servers involved in log shipping should have the same case-sensitivity settings.
* The databases in a log shipping configuration must use the full recovery model or bulk-logged recovery model.

Permissions
You must be a sysadmin on each server instance to enable log shipping. The backup and restore directories in your log shipping configuration must follow these requirements.
* For the backup job, read/write permissions to the backup directory are required on the following:
o The SQL Server service account on the primary server instance.
o The proxy account of the backup job. By default, this is the SQL Server Agent account on the primary server instance.
* For the copy job, read permissions to the backup directory and write permissions to the copy directory are required by the proxy account of the copy job. By default, this is the SQL Server Agent account on the secondary server instance.
* For the restore job, read/write permission to the copy directory are required by the following:
o The SQL Server service account on the secondary server instance.
o The proxy account of the restore job. By default, this is the SQL Server Agent account on the secondary server instance.