Hi Greg

this is shared DB server and whenever we create the Database we create its unique security login and map its as dbo.

webs ervers are differenet

the objective is...

already checked there are no maintenance plans for such backup instances.

Hi andras

On SQL Server 2000 and 2005 you can play with the file permissions only.

If you can change the user, then you could control the permissions via the "BACKUP DATABASE"...