Thanks for that. Learned something. I was doing the backup from Management Studio.

Not sure. I am showing my ignorance here but I ran the backup on the database. I assumed it would overwrite previous backups.

Hello Gail and Bru,

Thank you for answering my questions. Looks like I'll need to set up a sql server 2000 virtual machine to do this. Was hoping to do it...

This is where I show how ignorant I am. In most other Microsoft applications you can save to an older version. Is this possible with a SQL Server database?