What do you mean by 'shaky ground'? What's wrong with the server?

Are you backing up the system databases (master, model, msdb)?

If it's from an MS press book then it is copyrighted material that you have no right to distribute. Unless there's a...

They're...

Please don't cross post. It just wastes peoples time and fragments replies.

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Make sure that's not braindumps or copyrightted material that you're offering publicly to distribute.

Fix the source of the problem. If the files aren't available, get them available, etc.

Are you saying the only way you can successfully complete a replication project is to hack your client's SQL Servers? Are they aware that by doing so you'd have lost...

Maninder S. (3/22/2010)

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There can be possibilities if some of the following are true. (there may be more reasons.. but the ones i have been through)

When you move a database across...

GSquared (3/22/2010)

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Just did an image search on Bing for "palantir" and found a couple. None were particularly spectacular at a glance, but there might be something better if I...

Haven't got any good images of that. Gonna have to search for one.

Can you expand on 'doesn't work'?

Is there an error? If so, what error?

Does the maint plan never run?

Does it run successfully but the backup file is damaged?

etc?

Not sure you want the crystal ball right now...

Gianluca Sartori (3/22/2010)

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I don't know who decided to install a new sever, who decided this instance could not fit into the existing servers, who decided the way the instances were...

Could you be a bit more specific as to the backup via the maintenance plan? If there's an error, what error, etc...

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