What do you mean as the data increased the line communication become insufficient? As the database grew, or as the amount of data you were trying to push across at...

Size on disk will be larger than the size reported back as it is taking the sectors actually allocated on disk into account. As for the Windows size and what...

I would...

The error is saying that you are trying to backup to a network location and not a local drive on the server. If the backup is indeed to the local...

What are the min\max memory limits on the two instances set to? You need to ensure that these are properly set and that you are not miscalculating so that your...

I am not sure of that claim. It sounds almost incomplete. It has been a while since I have worked with Backup Exec, but when I did, it did support...

You could also tell SSMS to output your results to a file. This will allow you to tweak your query\T-SQL script however you want and then run it from right...

This is kind of vague. I think we will need more information to be of more help to you. Table schema, replication setup, exact error received, etc.

Just to append to what magasvs posted, you can also see if the account has permissions by opening up Enterprise Manager with that account and registering the local server and...

First off you will need to plan for the migration of any service accounts that are in use, not only for SQL Server but for any other service that is...

I have to disagree with Joe. While I am not the biggest supporter of VMs on SQL (especially the potential nightmare live migrations can have on a very active server),...

Have you searched BOL?

Replication Log Reader Agent

It is a switch you need to set, not an option that is already listed.

Can you post the error that you get when you try and connect to the local instance?

Just to clarify, you took copies of the .mdf/.ldf files before you started the bad restore, or after? If it was after, then you are most likely in the same...

I agree with Ian, checking the services is a pretty easy way to determine the instance names. If they are not specified, then you have the default instance installed. As...