How does the free space and fragmentation level of the local drive look?

Do you see any other processes on that server that might be competing for resources?

Are you backing up to local drives or across a network?

Some rough estimates on what it would take to transfer a 35GB file at various rates across a network:

10Mbps: 8.5...

Try adding the location of your scripts to the path environment variable.

PS C:\>$env:path += ";C:\MyScripts"

Glad to hear you got it working!

Zuke,

SNAC is the abbreviation for SQL Native Client.

I didn't mention this before but I'd highly recommend you setup some type of lab environment with a few servers...

Change the account that SQL runs under to a local user account instead of the Local System account. For example, create a normal user account named SQLSVC, then change...

Ask that person/company that wrote the application if it supports SQL 2005 database Mirroring. If not, find out what they would recommend for high availability alternatives.

If in doubt about the syntax you could always check Books Online.

Did you change the database name, server name, domain name and port numbers to match your configuration?

In SSMS right click on your database then select New Query.

You might find this video on SSMS helpful:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Video/65066/"> http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Video/65066/

From a query window. Same thing you used when checking the endpoints before.

Before you go any further with mirroring check the section in that article titled Multi-Database Issues. If...

The witness doesn't switch the roles of principal and mirror, it's just there so that 2 out 3 agree on who's who.

With the SNAC client you can configure the...

How about taking a step back. Try setting up mirroring without the witness first using a test database. Then after you get that working add the Witness. Better to...

Zuke,

About the log file, my guess is that another transaction log backup had been taken before you took one, maybe run by a scheduled job. You should be able...

Taking the App A & B out of the equation, can you connect to both instances on that workstation using Query Analyzer or SSMS?

As you pointed out, if you remove...