“On the fly” backup and restores without requiring intermediate storage

I'm sure that the most "senior" readers will remember the possibilities available in old SQL Server versions to do backups using named pipes. And by older versions, I mean "really old", since this functionality was marked as obsolete in SQL Server 7 and, although it remained in SQL 2000, it was completely removed from SQL Server 2005 and later versions.

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