That brings me to my next question. Should I be backing up my system db's as well?

I am not against differentials and implementing it into our dr plan. I am prepared to restore that many files, at least until I can find or build a script...

Awesome and thanks for the information. Got the PDF downloaded and will take a look at it this evening. We are doing backups of the backups to a AppAssure box...

Gotcha. I have been testing restores using the 'From Device:' instead of 'From database:'. If my main SQL Server was to go boom, I would have to use the 'From...