Using Log Shipping With Delayed Recovery

Kenneth Igiri shows how you can combine log shipping with delayed recovery to prevent data loss due to user mistakes:

Now let’s talk about the key benefit of this delay. In the scenario, where a user inadvertently drops a table, we can recover the data quickly from the Secondary Database as long as the Delay period has not elapsed. In this example, we drop the table Sales.Orderlines on BOTH databases and verify that the table no longer exists in BOTH databases.

It’s a fairly expensive technique but potentially still cheaper than restoring from backups.