We are already doing nightly full backups. without this we would be in hot watewr over writting the log backups everyday. we also archive the tlogs and nightly backups to tape over a 30 days cycle. so at any point i can restore from up to 30 days ago the full backup and that days tlogs backups. we also do a 3/6 monthly archive to tape.

We need to vendor to be comfortable with the backup / restore process as if I and another Staff member are away they'll be the ones called to do the retore process.