Actually, you just need to know what they'll pay for 😀

Lynn has a great point in that you need to know what your recovery intervals are and what your tolerance is for lost data. Based on that, you have to...

What is working and what is not working, or maybe you can explain with some data what you want to happen. It's a little confusing as to what you think...

I would highly recommend you stop using one file for all your backups. If something happens to that file, a corruption or anything, you lose all backups in there. That's...

You can restore to 2005, but not 2008.

However, you can restore to 2005, it will drop into 70 mode, then take a backup as a 2005 backup. That should get...

Low disk space will slow it, but I'm not sure it should be hours. Is the server overloaded?

says here you can do the restore:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187495(SQL.90).aspx

Not sure what incomplete means. This?

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30578212/restore-problem-the-m.aspx

I've never really used it, but I recently read a book that recommended it and I agreed. I'll use it from here on out.

It's a good habit to get into...

Boy, life is changing when we have 1TB USB disks for a few hundred bucks.

Back when 500GB was a lot of space, most dbs this size were on the SAN....

The native software is the fastest for throwing out pages, but if you use software with compression (Litespeed, SQL Backup, etc.) it can save time because less is written to...

I think DBAs by nature should be conservative, and not deploy things that are not solid and stable. Mistakes by us in moving too fast, can be very, very big...

Wow 6.0 is really old. I'd expect that you'd at least have v6.5. There were issues with 6.0 and it was only sold for about 6 mos.

Right click databases in...

Nope, Resource needs to be copied separately, but it's basically not changed with anything you do other than patches.

So if you need to restore everything, you want the Resource to...

Yeah, I'd prefer not to get stabbed. Remind me...

Thanks for the update. Hope it works from here on out.