Yeah, some people do replicate or backup hourly with SQL VMs and Veeam.

As long as the storage can handle that extra I/O during the day - should be good.

If point in time recovery (dial back logs) are required, you'd still need SQL agent backups. If not, our image will be fine.

That's what it looks like to me.

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