Backward Compatability in Yukon using backup devices?

My peers have informed me that I should no longer code my backup routine
using a backup alias via sp_addumpdevice because it is 1) Provided only for
backward compatability and 2) Will not be supported in the future.
Should I not be using a backup alias for these reasons? Yukon provides the
commands but no where have I seen where it's only there to support backward
compatability and that it is targeted to be phased out. Can someone show me
this?
Thanks.
-Cqlboy
I know nothing of dump devices going away any time soon.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Cqlboy" <Cqlboy@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My peers have informed me that I should no longer code my backup routine
> using a backup alias via sp_addumpdevice because it is 1) Provided only
> for
> backward compatability and 2) Will not be supported in the future.
> Should I not be using a backup alias for these reasons? Yukon provides
> the
> commands but no where have I seen where it's only there to support
> backward
> compatability and that it is targeted to be phased out. Can someone show
> me
> this?
> Thanks.
> -Cqlboy
|||Thanx. Thought so. My fellow peers
are misinformed.
-Cqlboy
"Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:

> I know nothing of dump devices going away any time soon.
> --
> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
>
> "Cqlboy" <Cqlboy@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>
|||I'm with Andrew. Ask your colleagues for a reference. It is easy to make claims you can't back up...
:-)
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
"Cqlboy" <Cqlboy@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanx. Thought so. My fellow peers
> are misinformed.
> -Cqlboy
> "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote: