i have faced this type of problem....deleted old maintenance plan and create new maintenance plan....

now its working properly fine....

on local machine create shared folder with full permissions..

on remote server take backup

example

backup database model to disk ='\\localmachinename\shared_foldername\model.bak'

thanks for post......

Hi daveriya.....................

Its depends on companies environment,There are many servers and many databases in my company we are using sap as front end and database size is around 10GB and connectivity...

hey have u installed mysql odbc drives on your server..................

i use sp_lock then find the spid associated with concerned DB...

i kill that Spid.......

thanks for the help

its working..................

hey i have already refer to that link...............

database snapshot feature is not available in sql server 2005 express edition

Challenging question.....

everyone little bit in confuse....................

it is all recovery models support database snapshot