True true, does seem like a whole lotta effort, but it could come in handy one day..

In my hypothetical disk space concern, good point on the backups, but I guess i was assuming that full and tlog backups are already utilizing space on the drive, so having another 120gb on top of that would be recommended, but not always the case...and there is always LiteSpeed which would compress your full backup to 24gb @ 80% compression. 🙂