What is the operating system you r running on ?

What is the IP of your server?Is it the same as your database IP (Check for virtual IP)

Check the cluster administrator...

The best preferred RAID policy would be RAID 10 which will have a good performance impact on both reading and writing.

You need to have a minimum of 4 drives to...

check with the network administrators if there is any upgrade done or any changes done to the routers conf(ACE's etc)

You can ask them few more questions like:

Is the application runnning slow for all the users or a only set of user(s)?

Is the complete application slow or only a part...

Do you have a log file redirection which can tell where the exact issue is!

Try splitting the operation into 2 jobs and see if they are working fine as seperate.

try dbcc indexdefrag(db-name,table-name) instead of DBReindex

once all done do an DBCC UPDATEUSAGE(Db-name)

and exec sp_updatestats.

You can find information about the latest changes in recovery model in SQL LOGS.

As per your statements,

You are doing full backup twice daily and diff every 30 min.

Change the full backup to schedule as only once a day, and differential every 4 hrs...

when do the backups/indexes jobs run, I mean at what time?

They should run only when the user activity is less...see if there is a chance to run them at a...

If you only want to backup the code of sp's,triggers etc...generate the script of all these objects and save it some version control tool like VSS.

Thanks for the suggestion, just joined here...looking into things!

Oh..I have lots of questions to ask them...hmm! and test them.

If they do a system restore even my regular trn backups will...

which edition are you trying to install?

did u meet all the prereuisites...system requirements?

can you be more clear on your question?

I dont understand in your sense what is prod and what is DR?

try server_name.database_name..table_name and if works fine...keep an alias(synonym) for this name and go ahead

Pavan

thanks for the suggestion, havent tested the restore...will surely do that, restored many times with the regular SQL backups, but not from system backup.