SCCM 2012 - STandard SCCM Backun against SQL Backup Task

With SCCM 2012 we have the ability to Backup Configuration with itself SCCM procedure.

You can get this result with the following article:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712697.aspx

and blog article:

www.alessandromazzanti.com/2013/09/sccm-2012-p15-backup-and-recovery.html

anyway you can restore the site database from a backup that is performed as part of a Microsoft SQL Server maintenance plan..

The biggest Advantage it’s the backup size (example: 500 Gb. Other than 50 Gb.)

The standard ConfigMgr backup task will simply copy all of the database data and log files to the backup folder location. During the SQL Backup task, you have the ability to specify compression for a database backup.

So, if you are interested to implement this procedure, you can follow/take a look to the following tutorial:

http://stevethompsonmvp.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/sql-server-backup-recommendations-for-configuration-manager/