all good idea Phil. I've also had this response from our datacenter provider:

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Currently, 99.9% of memory is being used by SQL mostly leaving no memory for windows. Also, your...

Wow! Great response 😀

Just wondering, anything I can do in the short term? cause umm.. how much is a lot of money? 🙂

For example, if I get an external disk,...

Actually its just C and E drive. C has 30G, and E the rest.

Sounds like I'll need to organise a new server, and migrate dbs across.

What would be the...

Also got this thread going..

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqldatabaseengine/thread/87ec685c-cbe5-4884-a6d7-848ba7eea55d

Yes each database is backed up to a single new .bak file. The largest file is 28G at the moment.

Its a 64bit OS with 16G ram.

Most of the backups run under 5minutes, its just that two of the databases (the largest ones), i.e. 50G take about 50 minutes each...

All 16 databases are production databases on this SQL server instance. The web systsem is a 24/7 international application, so uptime is always required, and there are transactions happening...