Recovering Transactions for a Failed Clustered Server

In the case of clustered servers, the recovery process is fairly automated. A server can perform recovery for another server while simultaneously processing its own transactions. Note also that, should the backup server die during the recovery process, recovery can be forwarded to another server.

The following describes the sequence of events.

1.
A clustered server crashes.
2.
The clustered server's backup server takes control of the transaction log on the crashed server.
3.
The Transaction Recovery Service on the backup server sifts through the transaction log files on the failed server. For each incomplete transaction it identifies, it attempts to recover it.
4.
If the recovery/completion ...

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