Thanks for the kind advice.

My clients server is in a small business with only one server, so he never implemented AD.

As you suggested, I'll start the time correction tonight and not allow access to the DB until the 4 hour outage is complete. So, by Friday morning, the time should...

After speaking with the programmers, I'm going to reset the time by 4 hour increments on 3 days, to minimize the effect on users. During each reset, no updates to...

I tried setting the system startup account to cvsql1\administrator and this time it worked without errors.

I ran the one step job:

EXEC xp_cmdshell 'copy c:\DB.BAK \\cvsql2\c$\*.*'

and the job history shows:

Executed as...

You'r right!!

I tried cvsql1\administrator and \\cvsql1\administrator and got the same errors:

The sql server agent account could not be verified. Are you sure you...

I've tried that using NT AUTHORITY\administrator, NT AUTHORITY\ADMINISTRATOR and NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS and I get the following errors:

error 15401: nt windows user or group 'NT AUTHORITY\administrator'not found. check the name...

Thanks for your thoughts. I do appreciated it.

Thanks for your replies. It makes me more comfortable to know that it can/has been done.

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