I ran into this issue when backing up virtual database servers with Microsoft's Data Protection Manager 2008 several years ago. At the time there was a registry fix for Server...

You could take 3 of your 500 GB drives and create RAID-5 configuration for the data drive. Use the remaining drive for the log file. The RAID would give you...

1) On the far right side of the Row Groups/Column Groups panel at the bottom of the project, hit the drop down arrow and select Advanced Mode
2) Under Row...

We had the same issue with our DPM 2012 setup affecting our virtual SQL servers hosted on Hyper-V

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This registry setting was added to the virtualized SQL server and...

Please check that the file extension is configured to bak and not .bak - I have made this mistake before and it will prevent the cleanup from working...

Have you tried to remove the publication rather than just reinitialize it? In our case we had better luck removing it and rebuilding from scratch. We have five publications using...

We recently went through this with a 1 TB database where we upgraded an application and had to rebuild the transactional replication. We decided to to do it from backup...