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I know... but do you want to keep shrinking and expanding the transaction logs constantly? The backup to NUL is done against the databases with full recovery mode; I do...

I know... but do you want to keep shrinking and expanding the log file constantly?... I do this in production where I have some databases that are replicated, and I...

Another approach is to back it up to NUL

CHECKPOINT

BACKUP LOG [databasename] TO DISK = 'NUL'