It appears that the backup was not a complete backup and just had file fragments. Did you format because of checkdisk or scandisk errors?

Nope. I mean the location on disk where the maint plan is trying to access to write backups, logs, or delete files. Have you tried running the steps...

Well, since you can't alter the database, I don't think there is a good way to solve this issue.

Personally, I would opt for an attribute or for an additional table...

I presume you are able to create, delete, alter files in the location referenced in the maintenance plan?

Michael Valentine Jones (7/31/2012)

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Lynn Pettis (7/31/2012)

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Let me take this a bit further. Where I am working now, people in the office will "telecommute" to local meetings. Since we...

Same versions exist on the other servers that work?

Do you have access to a different installer to test that?

mrtrich99 (7/31/2012)

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"- Execute maintenance plan. Backup Weekly (Error)

Messages

Execution failed. See the maintenance plan and SQL Server Agent job history logs for details."

There was no log file in the maintenance plan...

Grant Fritchey (7/31/2012)

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I worked on a project for about three years (it was supposed to take 18 months) that still wasn't done when I left the company. They too had...

What is the error message?

What version of .Net is installed?

how frequent is your log backup being performed?

Rather than reorganizing all indexes every sunday, why not break it up into smaller pieces and do a bit of the re-org on multiple nights?

Sean Lange (7/31/2012)

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The splitter that Lynn mentions is awesome at splitting strings. However it sounds like you are looping in the front end to get the selected values? Assuming that...

MyDoggieJessie (7/31/2012)

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I did try this, and was able to successfully start it

Start SQL with the /f parameter and traceflag 3608 on.

eg net start mssqlserver /f /T3608

however,

Connect to SQL via the...

GilaMonster (7/31/2012)

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SQLRNNR (7/31/2012)

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GilaMonster (7/31/2012)

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Grant Fritchey (7/31/2012)

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But you have a vaca coming...