The recommended maintenance plan for ePO 4.0/4.5 database using SQL Server Management Studio based on the maintenance plan KB
found on this link
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB67184
suggests backing up only the ePO database what I reakized that didn include the master or msdb database backup while its recommended by microsoft to backup that database
Whats the point of backing up the ePO database through maintenance plan without backing up the maste or the msdb database ? Is there any rational on this ?
the link for microsoft article
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191488(SQL.90).aspx
I think McAfee are assuming that if your running MSSQL 2005 (full version not express) then your IT dept would already have a full server backup procedure in place and therefore wouldn't cover it in the KB
But should we have back up for the master and msdb it simply checking the those dbs with in that maintenance plan they created which on my view probably what constitutes the difference between full recovery model and simple recovery model may be ?
I think the concerns based on the McAfee kb is backing up the transcation logs for all databases which may consume the disk space correct and also add some overhead for backing up those logs and moving them out the ePO server disk space correct ?
Message was edited by: allamiro on 8/5/11 10:24:54 AM CDTYou do need to backup the system databases on a regular basis - that is always a good idea. However, the KB article is focused on ePO database and not SQL Server in general.
Microsoft's recommendations in those case will therefore apply.
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