Thanks for the replies.  Colin, what do you mean when you say "this isn't good in a controlled environment"? 

Regarding it taking a while... if I use EM or the...

Ugh, the problems of having decenteralized job functions...

I'm going to check on this, but based on a conversation I had the other day with the Sys Engineer from Corporate Systems,...

I'm not sure what you're asking. Yes, we do differential backups too.  They take between 45 minutes and 8 hrs.

I'm so glad I started this thread. This has been a real eye opener.  Right now a full backup can take up to 3 days! I'm not kidding. And we've...

Well, the company I work for isn't small. What that means is there is a certain amount of bureacracy involved when talking about increasing the number of devices I backup...