You can take only Full backups of master database..but you can take differential backups of model and msdb databases..FYI

Please refer this thread. As mentioned by Bala it is by design..

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1779257&SiteID=1

Does the login which you use for performing this operation, exist in the destination server ?

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Can you try to completely uninstall using the windows installer clean up tool as shown here,

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/

Wonderful Phil 🙂 Adding to that also apply the latest service pack i.e SP2 for Sql Server 2005.

Hello Ola,

Sometime back when I tried to restore msdb from developer edition to enterprise edition and the error message was that edition was not supported.

AFAIK..when you try to install it 2nd time (assuming that 1st time it was successfull) the option to select the components will be greyed out and hence you will not...

[font="Verdana"]You can import the dts package under the legacy node and from then on you can schedule it using dtsrun utility. Have a look at this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa224467(SQL.80).aspx

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You can make use of sp_help_revlogin procedure to perform that,http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246133

You can refer this document which explains about mirroring. But you cannot backup the mirror server as it would be in restoring state.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/dbmirror.mspx

I think you can run them using dtsrun command. Refer,

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=184010&SiteID=1

Have you applied Sql Server 2005 SP2 for both the client tools as well as database engine ? If you have'nt please apply the same.

If nobody is able to connect to Sql Server 2005 try connecting using the \DAC (Dedicated admin connection) and see what process is currently running. You can query the sys.dm_exec_sessions...

I prefer Microsoft pressbooks which will be very easy to understand. If you are a beginner start with Virtual labs,

http://deepakrangarajan.blogspot.com/2008/02/links-for-sql-server-beginners.html