matthew.sharkey - Wednesday, January 18, 2017 9:23 AM
If you lose the server, you lose your backups as well. Back up your databases to a server in a different building (different town, even) - that's the safest way. That's provided your network can handle it, of course - having half your backups fail due to dropped packets, timeouts or other networking black holes turns safe back into rather unsafe. See my comment earlier about staggering backup times.
John