• No, you're not guaranteed that you'll have data loss, but it's more likely. As long as you're doing frequent log backups, and you're able to do a tail-of-the-log backup, you should be able to get away without data loss as long as your full and diff backups don't contain corruption. But there's no guarantee.

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