You make a good point about the version updates. Just another point to make me nervous.

Haven't read through the thread so may be repeating / off topic.

The backup command...

Thanks for checking in Andy! I know how you feel, I'm fighting a terrible cold. Anyway, your plan is similar to the plan I had in place before...

Thanks, Steve and David. I think I have enough info to make recommendations on Veritas vs. SQL server - for now!

Kind of. Personally I do the following:

Backup SQL to...

Do you mean, SQL Server backups created on DISK, then the OS puts the SQL Server backup files on TAPE? With all this information, it looks to me like...

If the server fails, are you assuming the disk drive containing the log files is not available, therefore you have only a tape backup of the entire database? Doesn't...