• With your exclusion/inclusion of system databases, what about the distribution, ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB databases?

    Backup of system databases not required normally

    After making the point about having backups to avoid the risk of loss, now you say a backup isn't required. Well if you want some hope of recovering in the event of a disaster, you might want to backup your system databases. Full maintenance and backup of system databases only takes seconds, so why take the risk.

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