We backup the data base once a day and send it offsite. We also run the log in rollforward mode. This means if we still have the log, we can restore the data base and recover to the point of failure. Recovering without the log would obviously mean we only recovered to the point of the db backup. That makes when you run the db backup in relation to other tasks important. We run the db backup after doing storage pool backups of our disk and onsite tape pools to our offsite tape pool. We then send the db back and stgpool backups offsite together.
David Ehresman University of Louisville