I can assure you that backing up SharePoint is a bit more complicated than a single database backup. There's a bit of a left hand/right hand problem at Microsof

I can assure you that backing up SharePoint is a bit more complicated than a single database backup. There's a bit of a left hand/right hand problem at Microsoft when it comes to this product. The SharePoint team seems to go out of their way to make SQL Server-based backups painful, and they ignore the high availability technologies built in to the DBMS. You'd think they were trying to be database agnostic.