Based on your DB sizes, you can probably get it done over the wire.

Use Winrar to rar them up and send the full backups over the wire. Since 70GB is...

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Best option is LogExplorer.  Its easy and painless.

I would start by taking a full backup - restore it on the standby server and then follow that up with the transaction log from there.

Since tempdb is recreated when you re-start SQL services.  If it is a devl server and you can afford to restart the service - stop...

Have you looked at http://www.freetds.org/

Shawn - thats what  I thought, thanks for clarifying that.

yeah - I have left 500MB for the OS.  Will run some more tests and see how things look

Have a good...

Can someone please tell me if "lock pages in memory" is supported in SQL 2005 Standard, 64 bit.  From from I can tell - it is not supported and even...

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There are too many to list. 

Did you try executing the job manually to see if it completes?  

"You can't backup the database and tlogs at the same time. Your T-log backup will fail."

T-log backup will not fail - it will just wait till the full database...

if you use hostname in the connection strings, than all you have to do is update DNS.  Just make sure you identify all connection strings DSN's etc.

Drop and recreate your DSN - test DSN connection when creating as well

not sure what you mean by requiring a hotfix to backup over the network.  Talk to your network guys about setting up the required permissions for you to  a server...

Did you try it dbcc log setting output to type=4 which will give you full information about each operation plus hexadecimal dump of the current transaction log's row. 

But for...