I believe it's solved. I had to start the instance in single user mode and then reissue the commands to point msdb and log to the new location of the...

To all, thankyou for taking the time to reply to my question.

I solved this by implementing scheduled backups that were

then copied to the 2nd server and restored there.

Works really...

The databases recovery mode is set to simple so don't believe I can do this ?

It saves connections in a drop down so I can create a "live" and "backup" connection. I figured if the primary SQL server went down I can just tell them...

The app has a connection screen at login where you can define the database to connect to