Good points -

I like the idea of having at least one or more full/diff backups and transaction logs on disk just incase the tape that we write to...

Hi All,

I guess I was not specific on my wording.

http://www.symantec.com/business/products/family.jsp?familyid=backupexec

What I meant was the Backup Agent for SQL Server. Please see link above for over view of...

The problem with performance alerts is that they need to be created for each database. However, a script can be executed against a bunch of databases.