You probably know that you can mirror a backup to several destinations, assuming you are on a supported edition (Enterprise or Developer). This is not the same as striping; you can compare striping to RAID 0, and mirroring to RAID 1. Ola now supports mirroring in his maintenance solution, found here. A couple of examples: EXECUTE ...

''So what bad has this option done?'', you probably as yourself. Well, not much, but I find it evil because it confuses people, especially those new to SQL Server. I have many times seen people specifying something like 3, and expect SQL Server to keep the three most recent backups in the backup file and overwrite everything which is older than ...

Ola has a set of stored procedures to do maint operations, see http://ola.hallengren.com/. Ola has now updated them to support exclusions or inclusions of tables, indexes or even whole schemas from index rebuild/reorg. Check out http://ola.hallengren.com/Documentation.html#SelectingIndexes for info on how to define exclusions and ...