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I recently came across an issue in the Nintex installation where Nintex Live did not appear to completely install successfully.  I was installing the 2.3.2 (English only) version of Nintex.  The installer ran to completion just fine, and the deployment of the WSP’s all worked without any kind of error, but as soon as I …

The following is a good post on using the PowerShell commands for backup and restore in SharePoint 2010.  It covers both farm level and granular backup, as well as details on how scheduling and automation work with SharePoint backups using PowerShell. http://weblogs.asp.net/sreejukg/archive/2011/05/18/backup-and-restore-in-sharepoint-2010-using-powershell.aspx

Earlier today I needed a way to extract all the WSPs from a Production farm and copy them to a second farm (UAT).  I found this article and PowerShell script which did exactly what I needed.  Enjoy! http://www.sharepointbleached.com/2011/03/extract-wsp-solutions-from-sharepoint.html