Backup and Restore Corruption question

[cmdematos]

Hypothetically speaking, if the database corrupted, could I backup and restore the corrupted database without knowing it?

More specifically, if I run a warm backup server, and the main server gets some sort of corruption in its database, can this be transferred to the warm backup server?

What are the chances of Database Corruption?

 

[JayKusch]

It is possible
Thanks

J. Kusch

 

[SQLBill]

Yes, as far as I know, backups don't know 'state'. Therefore, the backup doesn't KNOW the database is corrupt...it only knows that it is supposed to backup the database. So it backs up the databases current state - which may be corrupt.

-SQLBill