[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by nirasha [/i]
[B]although it works it still does not make me feel comfortable with people having this access.
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So what's your alternatives?

In a large majority of shops, the sysadmin can become any user he/she wants to anyway. Since database backups are a joint responsibility between the DBA group and the SYS Admin. group it would be best to design a solution with input from both groups. In addition, by involving both groups you will learn from each other. Once you come up with a plan, test, test, and re-test it to make sure you can recover. If you can recover from any failure scenario and your sysadmins use some funky software to back it up, who cares?