I've run into a similar problem before and used RESTORE VERIFYONLY to check the success of the backup.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188902.aspx

I think (but am not sure) that the filesize gets allocated when...

This may or may not be related...but I ran into a similar problem with SQL Server 2000 after moving to a new server with W2K3 SP2.

There are security changes...

I've run into this before (but with 2005) and had to manually edit the job script. In a nutshell the line breaks don't occur as you'd expect so I went...

We also ran into this a few months ago. It turns out there was a "torn page" in our database. In our case the 3 files had corresponding messages in...

Thanks everyone! I appreciate the quick advice!

GSquared,

Unfortunately nothing ever gets logged to the SQL Server log or the event viewer (or anywhere else that we can find!).

I've set up alerts for events 16-25...but none have...