SharePoint Dragons

If you use RBS (see http://www.loisandclark.eu/Pages/blob.aspx for detailed info) and back-up and recover the SharePoint farm or content database, or use SQL Server backup and recovery, RBS data will automatically be backed up and recovered as well using the SQL FileStream provider. This won’t happen in cases where you’re using a 3rd party RBS provider. The following link contains a nice overview of what gets backed up using which method: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261687(office.14).aspx.