I found that there's a wizard to transfer DTS packages from 2000 to 2005. I ran it for 1 package, and it succeeded, but I go to my 2005 machine...

What's the date of the most recent FULL ?? 5 months ago ?

To turn on transaction logging, so that you capture changes from now going forward, you need...

Query your backup history to see what backups have been run. This will show you all the FULL, DIFFERENTIAL and LOG backups. You can modify the # of days to...

But if the service is down, then your monitor job won't run either.

We haven't heard that there are any t-logs. If there were, you would do a FULL DB restore WITH NORECOVERY of the database. Then restore each t-log in sequence WITH...

Copy it after the backup ?

Do you mean you're worried that scheduled jobs might not start ? Or that there is no job to start with ? #2 is more likely and you...

I mean that if he has 5 months of transaction logs (not likely) then he could re-run the restore and then apply the 5 months transaction logs.

But if there are t-logs, he could run the restore again, this time leave...

I have found that "just in case" is one...

Magy (2/13/2009)

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but it is the correct backup file. I even tested it again...and the files in the restore as option are always different from the actual name of the...

There's no new entries in the trace file for the last hour, so they don't seem to be running. But if they are, how would I turn them off since...

Thanks ... yes, I want to keep them as DTS packages.

If you're using 'sa', does they need to have the same passwords on both servers ?? Seems I recall that was the case replicating across domains. I'd...

Maybe you can tweak it. I had that already built, but I don't have much spare time right now.