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CHECKSUM
Specifies that the backup operation will verify each page for checksum and torn page, if enabled and available, and generate a checksum for the entire backup. This is the default behavior for a compressed backup.
Using backup checksums may affect workload and backup throughput.
I use it in my backup sproc.. but I still do weekly restores of a random set of databases. Everyone here recommends doing regular restores. I read this advice so much I got the hint eventually and scheduled a weekly task to do this kind of thing on fridays!
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It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
David Edwards - Media lens[/url]
Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
Howard Zinn