Hi,
Hoping to get some advice on this if possible please.
I have inherited a system where we have SQL Server 2008 R2 running in a Hyper-V VM, but where the main database (and logs) for our core application is on a NAS drive (using an iscsi connection). The SQL master database is still on the VM.
I back the VM up every night using Veeam and the database is backed up by a seperate system daily too, but not at exactly the same time.
My question is, if the VM fails and I have to restore it in its entirety from the previous nights backup are there any implications when I boot it up and it connects to the database on the NAS (which won't have been restored). This would be in a typical scenario where no structural changes have been made to either SQL or the database concerned in the preceding 24hrs - just the usual data added to the application database from a regular days work.
i.e. would there be anything in the way that a database communicates with a SQL server that would suddenly throw it if that server suddenly 'rolled back' 24 hrs. Would I potentially have to restore the database from backup too (and therefore obviously lose any data entered after that backup was made)?
Any thoughts?
Thanks.