Well not right at 4.5GB, but it stayed in a range from 3.5-6GB during the time that it was running normally.  I can not seem to make out a pattern,...

That was a good idea on testing it.  I was able to find a server with enough free disk space so that I could test the recovery.  It worked but...

Thanks, Here is my rundown on your points A-C

a)  Like I said before I can pretty much rule this out.

b) There may have been some DBCC INDEXDEFRAG's run between Trans...

The New Maintenance plan ran a successful Backup of the DB and Trans Log last night.  This plan was run outside of Windows compression as mentioned in a post above. ...

Steve,

Exactly it doesn't make any sense, and by the way congratulations on post #500.

Yes I was viewing through TaskPad in EM as well as mapping to the server and...

Steve,

Yes I choose append from the backup wizard, But I do not believe that I am appending to another backup file.  This is how I go about running the manual...

A shrink only runs once a week.  I looked at the size of the transaction log, through EM and the physical files on the File system, prior to backing it up and...

Carl,

I think it mostly has to do with what your system is doing.  I ran into a similar issue with a few SQL instances a while back.  The apps were...

According to all of the documentation I have read, changing the audit level always requires a instance restart for it to take effect. 

TJP8

To Give those of you reading this a followup.  I backed up the Trans log outside of Windows compression and it succeeded.  I then backed up the database inside compression...

what will this do in this situation?  I have never used this flag, and doing a quick search about all I found on this was http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297104/EN-US/ 

The error mentioned in this support...

I posted this a while back and never really got a response.  Still not sure about the error stack, but More importantly, I was wondering if anyone on here was...

Sorry, I don't think I put the picture in there properly, so if you can't see it here is the error stack

ERROR

Exception of type System.Web.HttpUnhandledException was thrown.

at system.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e)

at system.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain()

at...

I have not seen Yukon at this point.  Does anyone know if they are changing the way instances are handled in that release?  I do not understand why they do...