Just a clarification,

I went into details of different ways to perform a backup without explaining
the benefits of the different methods, so, here is a quick overview.

Standard Backup - takes a snapshot of the database from when the backup began.

Shadow Style Backup - takes a snapshot of the database from when the backup
finishes.
Roll Forward Logs - Differential Backup.

With a Roll Forward Log, you can take any backup, and apply all the changes
needed to make it current. You can extend this technique for remote
replication - I will show examples (and problems to watch for) of this method.

Best regards

Dalton

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