Our problem ended up being hardware the admin found out that the server was missing battery write cache for the controllers.

We finally got a chance to try restoring with the compatibility level at 90 it did not help.

We backup nightly but really the first time we hit an noticable issue with backup and restore for SQL2005.

Just one file group

The recovery mode is simple. The log is 500MB.

I thought maybe the first time it would be a possiblity but then I restored that db that already went through the 2005 restore to another SQL 2005 server and...