I have an application that runs on server A and the database is on the same server
there is a backup server B which I use in case the server A is down
the application will remain unchanged but the data in the DB is changing constantly
Is there a way to synchronize those 2 databases real-time automatically?
currently I wait till all the users are gone so I can manually backup and restore in the backup server.
Edit: When I said real-time I didn't mean it literally, I can handle up to one hour delay but the faster sync the better.
My databases are located on 2 servers on the same local network.
2 of them are SQL Server 2008, the main DB is on windows server 2008
the backup is on windows server 2003
A web application (intranet) is using the DB
I can use sql agent (if that can help)
I don't know what kind of details could be useful to solve this, kindly tell me what can help. Thanks.
Edit: I need to sync all the tables and table only.
the second database is writable not read-only
I think what you want is Peer to Peer Transactional Replication.
From the link:
Peer-to-peer replication provides a scale-out and high-availability solution by maintaining copies of data across multiple server instances, also referred to as nodes. Built on the foundation of transactional replication, peer-to-peer replication propagates transactionally consistent changes in near real-time. This enables applications that require scale-out of read operations to distribute the reads from clients across multiple nodes. Because data is maintained across the nodes in near real-time, peer-to-peer replication provides data redundancy, which increases the availability of data.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16497486/is-it-possible-to-real-time-synchronize-2-sql-server-databases