Check that the SQL Server service log-on account is a domain user and not the Local System account.

Markus, the point I raised on CPU usage was in comparing between native backups and 3rd party SQL Server backup tools.  The native backup imposes almost no extra load on...

See here for a discussion on compression using standard compression tools (WinZip, WinRar etc) vs online backup/restore compression/decompression tools like MiniSQLBackup.

If you are comparing between the two, then online...

In SQL Server Books Online, look for point-in-time in the index.

Simple log shipping?  You must mean this.

>>  I realise that people are probably sick of hearing this type of thing by now ...

Not me.  Thanks for the reminder.

Well, for sure the backup will contain the new rows if the trxs have been committed by the time the backup ends. 

According to Inside SQL2K by Kalen Dalaney, a...

A backup contains everything you'll find in the database.  Note that full-text catalogs are not stored in the database, so they are never backed up using the BACKUP command.

You can't use the WITH MOVE option when restoring differential backups.  Also, you might try running the RESTORE HEADERONLY for both backups, and check if the CheckPointLSN for the full...

Restore the full database backup using the NORECOVERY or STANDBY options if you want to further apply differential or log restores e.g.

RESTORE DATABASE leon FROM .... WITH NORECOVERY

The problem the OPs encountered is the failure to attach databases which were not originally detached.  I wouldn't know the internals of the differences between a shutdown and a detach.

From...

RESTORE LOG MyDatabase FROM DISK = 'Mytranslog.trn' WITH NORECOVERY

If you take a look at the problem that Jasper Smith solved in the post I mentioned, you would see that the user failed to even attach using sp_attach_single_file_db.  Usually,...

Lukas, that was a very strange way to prove your point, as you could just as easily have ran sp_attach_db 'pubs', 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\DATA\pubs1.mdf', 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\DATA\pubs1_log.ldf'

Great for...

PowerDVD301_2_Data.MDF is just the name of the data file that needs to be 'attached' in the example.  Replace it with the name of your mdf file.