Backups Best Practices

I have a question about using sqllitespeed.
They say it is faster doing a backup, what about restores,
I have several standby servers that I do full backups on
once in a while, so I don't have to run so many trans
logs. Does it restore fast as well?
Gary

>--Original Message--
>It looks like I have been presented with 2 options for
backing up to tape.
> 1. Use veritas SQL Agent and back up the full every
<blank> days and logs every <blank> days
> 2. Backup using native SQL agent to disk and using
veritas to backup the BAK files to tape every night.
>Anyone have an opinion on which is best and why?
>.
>Yes the restores are generally faster as well.
Andrew J. Kelly
SQL Server MVP
"Gary Abbott" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a question about using sqllitespeed.
> They say it is faster doing a backup, what about restores,
> I have several standby servers that I do full backups on
> once in a while, so I don't have to run so many trans
> logs. Does it restore fast as well?
> Gary
>
> backing up to tape.
> <blank> days and logs every <blank> days
> veritas to backup the BAK files to tape every night.