Under what account are you starting the SQL Server Agent Service? You should check, that the login has access to the directory that the DTS package access.

What size is your database now?

Well...that coud be a problem then, I read once, that it is not right to have both on the same server. I will try to find an article, if anyone...

You can disconnect the users with the kill command. To kill all the users connected you can check this topic posted before

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11316&FORUM_ID=5&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=kill+all+processes&Forum_Title=Administration

Did you try sending an email with xp_sendmail? And if so, Did you get the same errors? Is the Exchange server in the same domain that in wich SQL Server...

did you loggin in with the windows account that starts the services and create a mail profile for that user?

I seems that the distributor can't read the snapshot file. You should check that in that path you have all the snapshots files needed to start the syncronization. If the...

You can use Windows Performance Monitor to check for example, the transactions/Sec. Add a counter, chosee the SQL Server:Databases performance object and then chosse transactions/sec.

You don't need to use the option. No user can access the database been restored. Once you finish restoring all your backups, or restore the database with the recovery option,...

You should study more page, before talking...

Well zipping the snapshot's file after modifying them worked just fine for me, so I will used this method. Thanks anyway.

What error are you receiving? Check that the concatenation returns the result you expect. Use print to see if the body is right.

Check that the user account you use to start the agent has permissions into the files.

But Why do you want the replication monitor to show up if you won't use replication in your servers.

Are you planning to set the server as a distributor to start...

Thanks, I will give it a try.

Anyway I have generate the snapshot without the compress option. Modify the .bcp files and zip the files with rar.exe.

And manage to transfer the...