Pubs also worked ok for me!

I can work around this problem by just changing some 'jobs' around so I think I'll do that.

Just would have been nice to know what...

Yep - all its doing is restoring a database on the remote server. There is nothing in the error log.

I'm wondering if its just getting timed out!

The restoration should take about 30 minutes. When I look at the job history the Run Duration shows 27 minutes.

The restoration statement is:-

restore database pt_live from pt_live_ship with replace, recovery,...

Its set up as a linked server. The remote login that it links to does have a default database of 'master'. The 'master' database also holds the SP that gets...