Thanks John,

Checked with our server administrator, we implemented that a couple of months ago. Server is part of our domain. We have it user our clock service. ...

Taking a database backup is an excellent point. I did that but forgot to mention.

Here's another issue which I was stuck on. With stand alone instances, any kind...

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While I was not able to resolve - what I did as a work around - was to delete the job and re-create with the revised bak files I wanted...

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