• This is really basic stuff. Do you have any exposure to maintenance plans?

    I do prefer to run my backups using custom scripts but certainly a maintenance plan would be the easiest/fastest way to get it done.

    First thing first... what would be your backup/recovery strategy? would it be point-in-time or would it be last-known-whole-backup?

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