I spoke too soon. It still stops randomly. It did about 60 of the 70 databases and stopped. No error, just it just quit.

Triple-double idiot: Why didn't i just backup directly across the network? It seems to be working now that I did the obvious.

so far our MS guy is as stumped as I so that makes me feel a little better, but I thought I'd share a stopgap solution:

She starts in the command...

Yeah I think we're going to open a ticket with MS. Thanks all for your input. If anyone has any other ideas I'm all ears, but I'll report back with...

The service account is a local admin. Full permission to the LOG folder.

I just tried a new password and a new user. So bad password yields bad password message. So far so good.

Another user, same thing. 🙁

Sorry missed the last statement. Now this is weird. "The process terminated unexpectedly." when I attempt to use Network Service.

File exists. It was working fine until the last reboot. However it's not updated when you attempt to run it using the network account. If I switch it to Local...

event logs say:

Timeout (60000 milliseconds) waiting for the SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER) service to connect.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

even though it doesn't attempt...

It's using the same username/pass as the SQL server itself which starts. Not a password issue.

Bulk insert. I've found a solution, will post when I have a computer.

I would have assumed it was an "experiment" thing except that it seems to be a hard cap. I would expect performance to steadily degrade (more latency etc until it...

I think I've found my problem. My server seems to cap out at 96 continuously-running distribution jobs, once I attempt to set up the 97th it won't initialize the subscription,...

I've reinitialized, but the snapshot just sits there like a bump on a pickle, and the distribution job keeps running. I've also tried recreating the subscription, and removing the publication...

It's been running successfully for days. No error, but the "uninitialized subscription" and not picking up the files.