I'll leave this meme here...

When we had our cyber attack back in June 2017, everything was offline and it was reported internally that it was costing the business $50m p/h. We were offline for...

My car history is (and apologies to the US readers who may not some of know these cars):

Renault 5 - Wrote this off 2 weeks after passing my driving test

Lancia...

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by  HBollah.

As I posted on the worst day thread about the ransomware attack the opposite of the best days / week / months was:

• All previous / lower editions of SQL gone...

Working for a large international company when we got hit by ransomware. Kissed goodbye to 60,000 laptops, 10,000 servers and then spent the next 3 months rebuilding all the SQL...

bmg002 (11/16/2016)

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Is the backup happening to local disk or network attached storage?

If it is network attached storage, you could bug your network admin to see if there are any network...

Eric M Russell (11/16/2016)

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If you discover it to be a timing issue, and the job step can be repeated to completion, then consider going under Advanced properties of the step...

John Mitchell-245523 (11/16/2016)

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Can you get any of the steps to fail if you run them manually? You may have to use EXECUTE AS so that it runs in the...

Thanks John, yes, British here. Brexit doesn't mean to much to me at the moment. Just lots he said / she said, blah blah blah 😀

Anyway, I've setup full output...

From what you have written I guess you job is trying to access backup file to restore it to another database.

Can you check whether the jobs are failing when restore...

Hi Tazzman,

Nothing in System OS logs at the time of the job failure and it was logged in the application OS log as:

SQL Server Scheduled Job 'DatabaseBackup - USER_DATABASES -...