dont mean to double post.
just as an update, because the server is rebooted every hour or so atm, cannot do a netbackup as that will take about 20 hours, a sql native backup would take roughtly 10 hours and dbcc checkdb wouldnt be able to finish within an hour, so p2v is looking like the only viable solution atm.
Thanks for your help Gail anyways
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