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@xxxxxxxxx>:
If you can't 'stop' the production db (or put it in begin backup state), you can try to:
-- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev
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