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Last Answered:
Jul 11 2008 8:16 AM GMT
by Ritchie1
Your current technique seams sound. I would recommend sticking with the existing method, and simply moving the data from the current server to the archive server using DTS or SSIS on a daily basis. Then on the server with the current years worth of data delete all data which is over on year old.
Are you using SQL 2000 or SQL 2005? If you are using SQL 2005 are you using the native table partitioning or manual partitioning?
From R:
You might find this interesting
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160974(TechNet.10).aspx
SQL Server administration, SQL Server archiving
We deal with a very large database that grows at an avrage of 50GB a month. The current database size is 700 GB. All the transaction tables are horizontally partitioned to seperate filegroups assigned to a individual data files holding each months data. What would be the best strategy to retain another archive server that holds data prior to 1year and retain the production server with the recent 1 year data? 
