Chad Miller over on SQLServerCentral has put together a really great collection of scripts that allow you to easily monitor and report on what backups are happening on your system. These should be especially useful for involuntary DBAs, rather than having to dig into the backup history tables themselves. I'll be including a link to his post and downloadable scripts in all my DBA classes.
Check out Chad's article and scripts at Backup Monitoring and Reporting.
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