Thanks, everyone, but we already know all that. As it turns out we discovered what the problem was. In our backup preferences it was set to the default...

I have tried to due a full backup, then tlog backup, then shrink. NO errors, it just doesn't do it.

This is the log text: Database backed up. Database: DBXXX123, creation date(time): 2012/03/02(11:04:08), pages dumped: 10580129, first LSN: 26195:58812:1, last LSN: 26195:58814:1, number of dump devices: 1, device...

The physical device name is a guid. I assume once I figure out what this guid is actually identifying I can get my BAK file?

Good point. Thanks.

Thanks, and thank you for the book reference. I downloaded a PDF. Very handy.

Excellent. Thank you.

May I ask when disallowing page level locking might be appropriate?