Great post. I hope you will follow-up with a similar post about using the batch export tool. I am not an admin, but as a BI Developer, I do create metadata objects. While the admins do backups centrally, I also backup all my SAS code, but I don't have a solid system for backing up metadata objects. My guess is I should start using the batch export tool to script backup / archiving of metadata objects. Then I could store the .spk file in source control, along with .sas files.