What one cannot really do is to avoid backup of production database.
Restore to another physical machines should not be a problem. On the
contrary, it will verify your backup strategy and recoverability and
should be done, in fact, periodically.

2006/5/10, Ghassan Salem <salem.ghassan@(protected)>:

> If you can't 'stop' the production db (or put it in begin backup state), you
> can try to:

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