Dear Microsoft Customer Assistance:
I have configured log shipping myriads of times but never have I encountered with the issues I will be inquiring below. My colleagues and I are configuring log shipping for test purposes from server A (primary) to server B (secondary). The configuration from server A to server B was successful, and we shot-down server A and we brought up server be, which was a practice for Unplanned Failover log shipping. Server B was up successfully. I (and my colleagues) wanted to configure log shipping from server B (primary) to server A (secondary). Two of the databases were configured successfully, are functioning with no issue. However, the third database was configured successfully but the restore job skips the transaction logs and the transaction logs are not restored at all even though they are on the secondary server's share folder. I reconfigured this particular database more than 5 times and I still see no transaction logs are restored on the secondary server at all. I tried to restore the logs manually, and they get successfully restored but it says that zero pages are successfully restored.
How can I go about troubleshooting? I went online to see if there are any solicitors but for no avail. There are no other backups or job on either of these two servers except the log shipping jobs. Below is the message from viewing the restore history on the secondary (A) server.
I cordially thank you for your absolute cooperation in solving this issue.
Dan.
Message
2014-12-15 20:55:01.10 Skipped log backup file. Secondary DB: 'DatabaseName', File: '\\SERVER\FOLDER\DATABASE_20141215205355.trn'
2014-12-15 20:55:01.12 Could not find a log backup file that could be applied to secondary database 'DATABASENAME'.
2014-12-15 20:55:01.13 The restore operation was successful. Secondary Database: 'DATABASENAME', Number of log backup files restored: 0