3. SQL server backup jobs written to native file system and then backed up with Veeam and replicated. I don't know SQL well enough to know if the SQL jobs can run in addition to Veeam running.

Be aware that MS claims that any virtualization-snapshot-based backups (even those that properly used VSS) of either Exchange or SQL machines is unsupported by them at this time.

With the update there will be support of Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as well as System State Backup and Restore (Bare-Metal Recovery). Advertisment ...

If you have accidently deleted data from database tables in MS SQL Server, you can restore the deleted data (tables) using Log Sequence Number (LSN). But for this, you need the transaction backup file ...