It seems the last error for this in Foglight has now continued for 16 hours. Having looked at my actual database mirror on many occasions, I can 100% confirm...

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I didn't follow your exact approach, however the information you provided highlighted something thatI hadn't considered:

- SQL Server pre-allocates a file of that size on the NAS.

- SQL Server begins...

Thanks heaps Lynn!

This has been extremely useful.

I'm looking into this at the moment and will keep you posted on the outcome.

Correct we are writing it to a DFS.

The avg duration for the job to complete successfully while compression is off is about 5 hours.

When compression is on (and the job...

Failed: (-1073548784) Executing the query "BACKUP DATABASE [DATABASENAME] TO DISK = N'\\\\path..."

failed with the following error: "The operating system returned the error '87

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Did you ever discover the root cause for this?

It's no real issue to recreate a subplan (in my case), however, I'd be curious to find out why this occurs.

I couldn't...