Kevin Wilkie doesn’t like having four answers to the same problem:
I began reviewing the first SQL Server. Backups were done via a maintenance plan. No worries there. Many places rely on maintenance plans to do their backups each day.
On the second SQL Server, I found no maintenance plans. What I did find though, was a SSIS package creating backups each night for all of the databases on the server.
On the third SQL Server, I found an older version of Ola Hallengren’s Scripts.
And it goes on from there. Kevin makes a good point around how having a consistent solution is important, especially in troubleshooting scenarios. It’s easier to resolve problems if there’s a consistent pattern versus having to remember that, oh, yeah, this is the instance we tried using this one solution, but it didn’t work so we went with something else on another instance.