I'd like to get some opinions from my fellow SQL Server professionals on backup software. I'm getting a lot of flak from people on our system administration team because I use SQL Server to back up our databases. They insist that such backups are "outdated" or "antiquated", and they would rather I rely on software included with our storage solution for backups. I've explained that backups in SQL Server are not just for disaster recovery. We need them in order to truncate the transaction log and so forth.However, I am an open-minded person and I am always willing to entertain new ways or doing things. So my questions to the community are these:1) Are SQL Server backups outdated?2) Are there better ways to backup database in the age of SANs and NAS?3) What are the pros and cons of each approach?
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