>Just tell me that you make sure that the backup ran successfully the night before prior to starting your early morning madness (if not, lie to me and start doing it.) I don't feel very secure about doing global nastiness without a solid backup in hand, and I'll often copy the app directory over to another volume or server before doing things if I can, to ensure that i can recover quickly from my own mistakes.

Well, I check the Event log, so that'll catch most problems other than problem messages when you logon the server, or the tape sticking out of the server :) And I check the Win AT scheduler frequently to make sure the right backup is done.

The one little problem aside from the maintenance backups is incrementals, where I (or my backup admin) forget to change the tape once in a blue moon. I'm getting an autoloader soon, so that should remedy that problem, I hope...

Beyond that, I do a periodic test Restore attempt to make sure everything is in order. And we do keep periodic backups of files copied directly on an older archiving backup server...