Jeff Moden (8/29/2013)
Brandie Tarvin (8/29/2013)
K. Brian Kelley (8/29/2013)
With the different accounts in different environments, they are all admin accounts. Just one works for dev and one works for prod and dev never has the ability to work in prod.Unless the same person is doing both and happens to have different SSMS windows open. In which case, it doesn't matter what that person does to prevent these things from happening in the future, they still will happen unless that person double-checks and pays attention.
But you won't be able to restore prod over dev or vice versa because the boxes themselves cannot see the backups of the other.
Okay, I think you've taken this conversation up a level.
The boxes will and can see backups saved to disk assuming the Agent account (which is not the accounts we were talking about earlier) can see the backup paths. I know this because this is how it works in our environment. We have different agent accounts in prod and dev, yet because they do have perms on the backup path, we can restore without issue.
But the conversation (the way I understood it) was that the users should have different accounts for the boxes (which still won't prevent restoring over stuff).
Did I misunderstand something here?