Thanks very much the company policy is that we shouldnt ask the customer at remote site for assistance and so that is why tapes,dvd writers are out. To try http://FTP...

If you want to do the same continously a pause is necessary. I still agree that it is not the best way for this application but I have to support...

Not so much of a perfect application but it receives data continously and has to be pre-processed before loading into a second DB.

Thanks very much I will have a look

The application does not access any other database and I am able to run another package using the same server so that rules out permissions.