Security is all too often an afterthought, a "we'll bolt-on security features after we're done," and that tends to leave rather large, gaping security flaws in the products.  Toss in...

Henrico is on the right track, but just using a getdate() will cause problems as the colons in the time are invalid characters in a filename.
Instead, try the following:

Every time I think I've come up with a way to cut the time required to migrate my databases to new servers, I find a new roadblock...

/me thinks...

There are so many layers to this editorial it's not even funny.
You've got the data security layer, the "how can we be sure someone hasn't altered this data?"
You've...

Possibly the mapped drive is disconnected / offline when you have the problem?
I'd suggest the next time it happens, before doing anything to try to fix the problem (and...

Well, that was a fun hour and change...
One of my QA servers, a virtual machine on VMware, had around 11GB of it's 16GB of RAM swapped out to disk...

As a simpler solution (no downloads required,) if you're running Windows 10 and I'm fairly sure 8.1 and 7, you can simply mount the ISO (right-click -> mount ISO) and...

I use a WMI event Alert in the SQL Agent to monitor the free space of my drives and alert me if they fall below a set threshold.  You can't...