I was reading the blog post Time for a Quick Rant by Grant Fritchey (blog|@GFritchey) about people who choose to not back up a database simply because it is large. I agree wholeheartedly with Grant on this topic. Simply choosing not to back up a database is, well to put it nicely, reckless. The comments that followed brought up some good points about some scenarios where you might choose to not back up a very large database. I performed operations