Thanks for confirming my intuition Sugesh. I'll monitor the server hardware and network utilization to avoid any possible problems.

Thanks Phil.

Our company is just starting to put together a DR plan for our SQL DBs and we're using the internal log shipping as an easy way to get something...

Sounds like the backup routine can't read pages form the DB. Like Allen said, I'd check your disks first. Run a consistency check or a CHKDSK. Also,...

I'd recommend WinRAR as well. It can handle HUGE DB sizes. I compressed a 100GB database (no free space) down to 6 GB using the normal compression rate...

I haven't used Bright Stor before. I think it's the newest version of backup software from CA. CA acquired ArcServe and I tried many times (unsuccessfully) to get...

Same here. I can view all the physical disk coutners and I'm on a SAN as well. You might want to verify that you have the latest driver...

I'm assuming that You're running SQL2000 Enterprise. In that case, you need SQL SP2 to get it working properly on a cluster.

Also, MS doesn't officially support SQLMail...

Yes. From my understanding, only the source needs to be the Enterprise version. The monitor server and destination can be the normal SQL Server Edition.

When I setup my active/passive SQL cluster, SQL would only allow you to select one logical drive as the location for logs and data. This is confusing at first, but...

I've had log shipping running in our SQL2K environment for about 6 months. We're log shipping 3 databases to and from the same server. I'm using a separate...