I know...we'll get the paperless office about the same time we all get our flying cars we were promised way back when.  Personally, I think IT workers (at least those...

The 'A device attached to the system is not functioning' message bothers me.  This is usually indicative of a corrupt dll or driver or you may have a disk drive...

Yeah, programs specially created for this purpose like say....notepad?  That part must have been added my Microsoft's lawyers. 

Love at first Byte

Close Encounters of the Third Normal Kind

King Solomon's Datamines

Stripes

It's my PARITY and I'll cry if I want to

Our Datawarehouse, in the middle of our street

It's going to be...

Oooh, wait.  Do famous animals count?  Roy Rogers had a horse named TRIGGER!  Dale Evans should have named her horse 'ALTER'. 

The Bourne IDENTITY

Knights of the Round TABLE

Sin(tax) City...okay, that's a stretch.

Better quit while I'm behind. 

I agree with Francis.  Password protecting merely prevents someone from performing a restore from the backup if they don't have the password.  There is no native support for encrypting the...

The old school (pre SQL7) line of thinking was that you wanted your log files to be at least 25% of the size of your data file but with dynamic...

What if the whale is the diner rather than the donor?   

Thanks, both explanations help a good deal.  Some days I have a particlarly 'right-brained' mode of thinking espceially when looking forward to the weekend.  

Interesting wording on the answers. 

At the time the snapshot is taken, the schema and data for all objects is stored in the snapshot folder.  Does this not constitute a transfer...

This was truly another example of the herd instinct at its worst.  I read an interview with a 20 year old male speaking about how he was literally pounding on...

Just a thought for what it's worth.  It seems like you're going through a lot of trouble just with restoring Master and the system databases.  In a DR situation, it...

If you're looking for a consensus, I would tend to agree that Veritas is most likely your problem, and I've seen similar situations with other third party backup tools causing...

Has it ever run successfully? I would also make sure the user attempting the job has priveleges to run it.