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1) what is the best practice standard, pros/cons of doing backups to primary vs (any) secondary?<br />
2)would this be the same for both synch/asynch modes? (SQL 2012)
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1) what is the best practice standard, pros/cons of doing backups to primary vs (any) secondary?
2)would this be the same for both synch/asynch modes? (SQL 2012)

Availability Group - backup preferences.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.