USB drive so you can attach it to a recovery server.

Local backups aren't.

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Geoff N. Hiten
Senior SQL Infrastructure Consultant
Microsoft SQL Server MVP


"John Oberlin" <JohnOberlin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I agree that would be my first choice. However in the senario where there
>is
> no option but to have the SQL backups on the same server, where is the
> best
> place for an successful recovery.
>