Johan has a good suggestion, but I'd honestly contact the vendor and complain. In this era of security issues, there's no excuse and you might get the info from them,...

If you have the logs, you can probably dig through them. There are a number of log reader tools, and Red Gate has made their Log Rescue available for free.

No worries, though we prefer you respond or mark an edit so the rest of the thread makes sense.

We do make mistakes on questions, and I'm certainly willing to listen...

I had someone ask me to make some, but I've been buried with other chores. The wood shop is sorely neglected right now 🙁

Perhaps I'll get going once I finish...

I shall ask how much effort is involved there. With quite a few bugs, it's a matter of priority.

Alvin,

First, you are welcome to submit your own question. It's harder than it looks and this seems to be a straightforward question.

Second, a primary key does not include a clustered...

Tim, thanks for the suggestion.

Steve, thanks for the update.

I made that pen! Look for more, hopefully, if I can find some time.

Thanks, we've talked about that.

note that this is a bad practice. Any network issue, which occur all the time with network copies, will cause the backup to fail.

If you have space issues, you'd be...

This same command works for you if you run it interactively?

Not sure what would be wrong here.

Could be permissions. Dont' forget that you're asking the SQL Server to do the work, it's not your account. The service account must be able to see the backup file.

Be careful what you ask for here. Auditing all DML can be a tremendous amount of data. Be prepared to allocate lots of disk space to this process.

Dr. Andras has...

First be sure that you are actually backing up to the proper server.

Backups to remote servers aren't recommended as any network hiccup can fail the backup. If you must do...

I show emails sent for the last few replies here.

My guess is things are getting filtered on your end.