Brent Ozar announces an open source project to perform log shipping at scale:
On the primary server, multiple Agent jobs take backups simultaneously across lots of databases using Ola Hallengren’s proven DatabaseBackup proc. You control the backup frequency and the number of Agent jobs to balance recoverability against performance overhead.
On the restoring server, same thing, but with sp_DatabaseRestore – multiple Agent jobs watch folders for incoming files, and restore ’em. Just like with regular log shipping, you can control the job schedules, so you can use the servers for read-only reporting workloads during the day, then catch ’em back up to current overnight.
You can install the restore side of it on multiple servers, in multiple locations, too.
This looks like a very interesting project for automating DR solutions.