"Cold" Server Backup Brief

We have mentioned it before but now when you purchase Software Assurance with Microsoft Server licenses (including SBS 2003) you get "Cold" Server backup rights. This brief details the differences between cold, warm, and hot backups.

To me this seems to be more of an Enterprise right. Not to many Small Businesses out there that can afford to have a secondary server just sitting in a closet turned off ready to go at a moment's notice. The only problem...it won't be a moment's notice. If you read the brief you have the right to several times a year backup your server and then turn it off. It would be more like a 4-8 hour recovery if a full backup had to be restored on top of the cold server. Nice "feature" in SA but for the typical SMB probably too much overhead unless you're on the top end of the scale.