No I'm afraid no one ever replied and I still have the issue.

I think Pradeep gave me the code to run the log backups:

declare @log_name as varchar(50)

set @log_name='C:\Backup\test_log_' + convert(varchar,getdate(),112) + '.bak'

backup log test to disk=@log_name

Now that you mention I guess I'm...

Thanks, I guess I almost had it. I never would have gotten the end code right.

Thanks again for all your help. It is immensely appreciated.

Thanks for letting me know. I'll be sure to clear them out once a week. One more question, if I wanted to also set up differential backups, would...

You are the master! I just set up another job with the code you sent, and it worked like a charm!

Thanks for everything!

IT WORKED!!! Now that I have a job, I can at least set a regular schedule. I can't understand why the maintenance plan keeps failing.

Can you please tell...

Thank you for your patience and instructions. I was able to create the job as you stated, but it failed. I just called the job "test1", here's the...

I'm sorry - I'm not sure how to do that. From the toolbox, do I choose "Execute SQL Server Agent Job Task"? I can't seem to paste the...

If I choose the "backup database task" instead of using the wizard, I still get the same failure. The only way I am able to back anything in this...

I still haven't been able to get these backups working. Is there anyone that has a suggestion??

Thank you for your time!

Here's the T-SQL code from the maintenance plan I set up to run a full backup of a single database, which still fails:

EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_create_subdir N'G:\SQL_backs\psc_comp' GO

BACKUP DATABASE [psc_comp] TO ...

All databases are in full recovery method. I tried scheduling a full backup of just a single database and it still failed. I also tried to manually run it...

Yes, I'm backing up to a local disk. Initially I was trying to backup across our network to another server but switched it to backup to the same hard...

I ran it by right clicking and choosing execute and I get the same error. I did open the detail and do see some additional information:

"Unable to start execution...