I will give that a shot and see if reinstalling framework 2.0 fixes my problem. Thanks

hmmmm. That I didn't know. Is there a way to check that? Thanks

Yes I am running IIS with SQL server. Let me check the event log and see if i can find any related errors. Thanks for all the help so far...

I run full backup once a day at 11:00pm. So how would I setup an automatic job where it only backs up after 11:00pm job? Any ideas?

okay now it makes sense why the files are smaller sizes. Thanks for the clarification. Last question I have is if your backup expires after 14 days does that mean...

Grant,

Yes the automated job is running every hour. I only did the manual backup once. I am getting a error in the log, which I will post...

Abhay,

So that means when I first did the backup manually it picked up all the trasacations?

Alright this makes more sense now. So if I understand right I have full backup running every night and I am going to start doing transactional every hour, so that...

Andrew,

What exactly does differential backup do for me? If I do transactional every hour then do I need to differential backup?

Also, when I restore...

I do have a maintenance plan to back up all the system databases and other databases. The problem I ran into was that when the original server was brought up...

Okay finally I was able to rebuild the system databases and then restore all the databases from my backup.

Now my questions is would it be feasible for me to...

Steve,

I will give it a shot and see if they will give me support. Thanks for all your help so far. Will post back.

Steve,

I don't they will answer the call because it did bring back the BACKUPEXEC database. They will probably tell me that we don't support the other application....

Andrew,

I installed Windows first, partitioned the drive. Then put the files back from the Tape. I believe all the servies are installed. Attached is the screenshot...

Steve,

No I did not install SQL server. BackupExec installed it for me when I ran the disaster recovery. Actually I do have the backups for all the databases. So you...