Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Backup Considerations

After you consider hardware, you need to look at the basic techniques and frequency of your disk backups and database backups. For many companies, the backup plan isn’t what it needs to be to guarantee recoverability and even the basic level of high availability. At many sites, database backups are not being run, are corrupted, or aren’t even considered necessary. You would be shocked by the list of Fortune 1000 companies where this occurs.