How critical are transaction logs after a full backup of a SQL2005 database?

You can ignore the transaction log files for all intents and purposes, if you don't want to use them for log shipping or as part of your backup strategy.

You don't need transaction log backups at all if you're not interested in point in time recovery. You can always recover the database from the full database backup.

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