Hello!
I'm trying to set up backup for the database in an AlwaysOn group using Add Maintenance Plan wizard and got puzzled by the following:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/hh245119%28v=sql.110%29.aspx
if "the default behavior" is to take backups on the secondary replicas AND the only backup type supported on those secondary replicas is copy-only full backups, it is NOT possible to backup such databases (that to be backed up on secondary replicas) using Back Up Database (Full) method at all...
Q1: -Is it correct?
Q2: If that is true what's the purpose of copy-only full backups if no "really"full backup can be created? As far as I understand there's no way to take full backups of AlwaysON databases on secondary replicas out of box, am I right?
Q3: After checking "Copy-only" checkbox my Mainenance Plan (backup) completes successfully but no .bak or .trn files are created on the secondary replica...???
Thank you in advance,
Michael