Hi Steve and thanks for your input! This isn't for DR but I liked your solution for restoring the system DBs and then restoring the individual user DBs after...

Big thanks Clifton! I think this might be what the doctor ordered. Really appreciate it.

Hi Sudeepta and thanks very much for your reply. I know about the maintenance plan and agree that it's a very useful tool for generating backups. However, I...

One more thing - the restore doesn't have to be right to the split second of failure or anything like that. No concerns over differentials, transaction logs, simple, full,...