Please let us know what the search specifically is along with the table that is giving you issues.

A 5000 row table can give you issues and a 50billion row table...

I have checked sys.databases for the list of databases and then looked for backup files in the file system. That way I can be sure the backup occurred and also...

There should be more details in a text file. Check the maintenance plans for logging and the location.

My guess is that certain server level permissions cannot be trasnferred this way. Perhaps this explains it?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913422

Is this a user and not a login?

you have to do what Greg suggested.

Maybe you could give us more details about what this is?

It depends on whether or not the data in the filegroup changed and how that affects the rest of the database. It's possible to restore the file and cause issues...

If you run a transaction log backup, the inactive portion is truncated and reused. Maintenance plan or not.

Good advice above from Tom.

I think backups and security are most important, but it's good to get the other information listed above.

Or the server is down. This can be a network or permissions error.

Follow Matt's advice. Dont' delete anything.

Can you connect with iqsl and do a dbcc opentran in tempdb?

If you have queries with lots of static information, you can replicate to other instances on other servers and potentialy gain some performance, but your application has to support this.

You...

I'd follow the advice above, especially Robert's, but understand that you can only get back to the MDF file. You can't remove that one since it has system information in...

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That's strange. I wonder what it's doing as well. Profiler help at all or does it just show xp_sqlmaint?