I should have been clearer in that last response. It's important to me because I query msdb on the source server via a linked server on the target server...

It's not a problem as long as you know how to link them. I didn't know that until I read this thread. That solved the problem for me...

I have had the same problem but I don't think it started until SQL 2005. Before that the .bak files didn't have milliseconds as part of the file name....

Thanks for the reply, Mike. Did you turn it off in your OLTP environment because of deadlocks or some other performance consideration? Recently, I've tried limiting the number...