• Alejandro Santana - Monday, March 12, 2018 10:18 AM

    Regarding backups verifications, do you guys even restore the system databases?

    Yes. Keep in mind there are two different processes with the system databases - restore or rebuild. You could end up having to do either one of them.
    Back Up and Restore of System Databases
    Rebuild System Databases

    Another thing to consider that is inferred in the docs is that the resource database could be corrupted. That's a different process to keep in mind as well. If you copy the files for backups, you can often just replace the files that were copied as your backups and then restart. Otherwise you need to do the repair as stated in the article.
    The second link to the rebuild also lists some things you would want to regularly script out as rebuilding creates new system databases. Especially pay attention to the section about msdb as there are many other objects that you would want to include in backup/script plans.

    Sue