Oh well, worth a go.

Bless Robocopy.:D

Thats the exact same way we did our backups until we run out of local disk space, thats when I hit my issue.

Good luck either...

Hi mcphillipsjohn,

I share your pain, while I didn't have exactly the same problem as yourself, but have a look at my topic from a few months ago....

The solution was to...

After increasing the 'SessTimeout' value to 360 (6minutes), I've had great success over the weekend, with 3/3 backups working beautifully, including the largest of the databases.:w00t:

Thank you HeyJudee, you're a...

HeyJudee,

Your suggestion has certainly seen a difference overnight.

I only got an error on the largest database this time. You could be on to a winner here.:smooooth:

I've increased the "SessTimeout" by...

HeyJudee,

That looks like an excellent workaround. Just to confirm; it was the setting on the source SQL server(s) you changed, not the destination server(s)? Or was it both??

I feel your pain Vera, I really do.

I recently found the same hot fix:

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but I had to discount it for exactly the same reason, we're at a higher service pack...

Thanks for your feedback gents, it sounds like I'm in a battle I can't win here.

Oh well, more, bigger local SAN disks it is then.

Ta.

This is going to look ugly, you may find it easier to read by coping 'n' pasting the below into 'Notepad' or similar. Thanks again for your attention to this.

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