Thanks for the info! I guess we'll have to decide what the best course is going to be 🙂

Hi DBA_Freddie, we're having the same issue with our new NetApp SMB shares. Did you ever get a resolution to the problem?

Lightly resurrecting this just to note that I had the same problem.

Forcing it to use the 32-bit executable didn't work, but I did find out that the job had been...

Thanks Chris, I'll take a look at some of those but because of the intermittent nature of the problem it's hard to test! 😀

The backups are written to a SAN...

Yeah, you really can't put 2008 Enterprise on Windows 7 pro:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506.aspx#EE32

It's strange that that's the message you get though. Is it definitely Enterprise Edition?