I have another comment on this article. It is very important where you put your backups to. You may backup transaction log every 15 min but your server is backed up to tape once a day. Here you go. The standard advice is to put a backup on the separate physical drive (not a different partition, but different physical drive or array). Good advice. Exceptions: I personally had a case when both (2 ) RAID 5 arrays failed at the same time. Another scenario when you really have 1 physical array. My strategy in this case is to create a second (or next) step to the job to copy backups to a network location rigth after they are completed. I use just regular Copy command OR you can use you server scheduler to do that.