I have HA set up and working for a few years now.
We want to log ship to a new server and use this to upgrade.
We cannot take a outage for more than a few minutes and the database is over 500G in size, so a regular backup and restore won't work.
I set up log shipping and get this error when trying to create the transaction log backup..........
A transactional log backup could not be generated because the database is in either NORECOVERY mode or STANDBY mode. Primary Database: '
There are a few databases on this server that are near static and are not part of HA. I can set up log shipping on those with no issues, so I know the setup is correct. I have done log shipping in the past with no issues. This is the first time doing it with HA set up though.
Source server is Windows 2008 R2 running sql server 2012.
Destination server is Windows 2016 running sql server 2017.