Question : SQLserver2005 backup, recovery and log shipping

Hello,
  I have system that user SQL2005 standard edition and I would like to implement log shipping. So, I made a backup (80GB) and transfer to my remote side. My issue is  take 4 hours to copy the backup to the remote side and another 2 hour to restore the DB to the DR server. If I now implement log shipping for this DB . How do I account for the 6hrs difference between backup and restore.

Will log shipping compute the different and transfer the delta logs .

Answer : SQLserver2005 backup, recovery and log shipping

>> How do I account for the 6hrs difference between backup and restore.

Make sure that this Backup, copy and Restore is done in your Maintenance downtime or planned downtime(Greenzone time) so that this would not impact.
For log shipping, you also need to take a transactional log backup and restore it in the DR server which should synchronize immediately if you do it in the time window mentioned earlier..

Else you need to take that 6 hrs into account as the Transactional log generated in the 6 hrs might take more time to copy and restore but eventually it would come down.

>> Will log shipping compute the different and transfer the delta logs .

Yes, it would count only the delta logs..