SQLBill,

I agree that's what it looks like. I also like you suggestion of backups to disk and then regular file backups of those files. Much cleaner!! I'll suggest it to...

many times.....often just kind of hoping something may have changed.. alas nothing ever did.

Update!!!

Waiting for some tech support person to come in and help...

In the meantime the IT guy decided to try doing the restore using the NORECOVER option. We would then do...

Steve,

Continuing on......

Now I'm concerned about this and I believe we only have complete backups which are done overnight every night. I guess as the databases get bigger this will need to...

Steve,

Thanks for the information......it all makes me feel a bit nervy. The MDF and LDF (restored) look ok if I just look at the file system. I guess though that...

This is interesting, I'm trying to find any help I can on the particular problem we have. This forum  is the closest I can find.

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