Hi Marc,

About the UNC name, i have already tried that through QA as well as EM but gives me the same error. In fact in EM when i add...

Hi Marc,

Do i create a backup device that is pointing  the path to mapped drive or desitination computer and then select that Backup Device from All Task - Backup Database -...

I am just trying to backup by running the backup command from Query Analyzer i.e.

Backup Database (databasename) to Disk = '\\(ipaddress)\sharedfolder\databasename.dat'

The account that i am logged in with is the...

It is running under Domain account. Now so far as the permissions is concerned, i check the Sharing tab of the folder where i am dumping backups and in that...

Thanks for the reply Elliott but thats what i have been doing. Right now on my live server i have the schedules that run and take backups locally and then...

do u mean that i should check the permissions on the shared folder on the desitination computer? If so then how exactly do i do that?

Thanks for the reply

thanks for the replies,

Currently i am running Standard version of MS SQL Server 2000 on Windows 2000 Server.

The major problem that i am facing is that the O/S divided...

hello Journeyman,

Thanks for the reply.

I do understand about the difference of simple recovery and full recovery model in regards to transaction log and i am planning to shrink...

Thank you for the reply. So are suggesting that i change the recovery model to simple, than shrink the datafile and then change back to Full? Can you be more...