Thanks Eric, that info is useful and appreciated.  My choice would definitely be to have Veritas handle everything including full db backups, differentials, TLog backups and restores where appropriate.  I'm hoping that as...

OK, so from the sound of it there is some benefit to us keeping the important db's set to Full Recovery even if TLog backups are not run on a...

Thanks for the reply.

Our EBR team does use a Veritas SQL agent to back up the db's directly; Unfortunately, we do not have drive space available to perform local EM...

Thanks for the replies Hema and Allen.  I guess I wasn't thinking about a non-prod environment.  Seems so far that I have seen a lot more people involved in Dev...