Ric...

thx

It was apparently a permission thing.

Which is strange because a duplicate script writes the same file to a directory next to it but I can see that the security and...

I did confirm that an outside back up software was running on this box both nights at the exact time in question and was trying to back up every MDF...

Do not know, they will not tell me nor do they tell me when things run.

Also, last time something like this happened, SQL Agent did not get shut down. ...

So…Schedule blocking can turn off SQL Server Agent?

Physically turn it off, completely?

Oh, and I ckecked the SQL Error logs, no new information.

thx

will do

I had same problem but it fixed itself.

Same jobs worked the night before AND the night after, but on the one night in the middle, NO JOY.

Did nothing to fix...