Microsoft
"I think a lot of your questions are answered in our documentation."
Well, they are answered for those of you in the know at Microsoft. For those of us in the real world you could search for weeks and still not find an answer to your questions. There may be a small part of the answer here and another small part waaaaaaay over there and then yet another part in some distant reaches of the Microsoft galaxy. And you have to have inside knowledge that those parts go together. That's why I wanted a post or a document that CLEARLY lists all of the answers that I wanted. I'm sure there is more than one person who would like to see that also. I know. There is no time.
Your links just bring up more questions. Especially since that MSDN documentation is about as readable as an old IBM assembly language manual.
For example is "remote streaming backup" the same as doing a streaming backup on a server to a local backup device ?
Your answer about the consistency check only covered Exchange 2010. What about Exchange 2003 and 2007 ?