I have database which is 800GB big, recovery is set to full and there is also 700GB transaction log file. I need to do something about this log size:). Database and log file is on RAID10 SAS drives.
1) Can i move transaction log file to a slower disks (2 SATA in RAID1) without impact on the performance?
2) I want to control transaction log file size so was thinking to do following
Make full DB backup
Make transaction log backup
set recovery to simple
shrink log file
set recovery to full
observe the growth of log between 2 backups (will full and differential do i have to do it between 2 full backups) and then limit it's size to (size + 10%)
Is this proper way to do?
After differential or full DB backup, can i set recovery to simple and shrink the log file without need to backup transaction log?