am not very familiar, but There will some check box while configuring i assume, "Terminate User connections" . one of my colleague was telling it, you may check properties and...

I faced some issue with xp_cmdshell, not a similar one though, may be below link might help you

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic682723-146-1.aspx#bm682857

It solved the problem for me..

Thanks,

Sudhie.

Wow, this is really good piece of information from all of you. Thank You.

Now i have been monitoring growth for few days and the growth is very less, Some...

Also keep a monitor on Unsent_log and send_rate using sp_dbmmonitorresults

Thanks,

Sudhie.

I would say Switch to Asynchronous as the first step before Index rebuild and as a last step after Index rebuild, Switch to Synchronous.

Just curious, why no Asynchronous mirroring?

Thanks,

Sudhie.

Thank You Both of you for your ideas, i am going to monitor growth for one week and will decide on it..

Thanks,

Sudhie.

The backups are kept on tape for several weeks. I also know a yearly is taken and kept for an extended period of time.

The tapes are over written at...

Here is some more info and changed strategy -

I am taking SAN replication out of my discussion for now -

T- Log backup every 15 minutes (Retention period -...

Thanks for quick turn around every one, keep them coming. I will post an article on SAN replication if i get it.

BTW, this is my first longest thread in...

I agree with that article, But for some jobs we are suggested not to run backups in parallel. So we are not finding good time to accommodate this long running...

We have San replication, so we switched off tape backups..

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Sudhie.

Krishna - We have SAN replication enabled. Although i know nothing much about that..all drives are replicated to another server..

Now considering SAN replication, will this strategy work?

BTW, Backup drive is...

May be statistics are outdated, did you check them?

valid point...Will increase in retention period override this Problem?

Thank You, it helped me