The big issue apart from dependencies that you will face with method 2 is that the items run against staging from VSS may not be the same that will run...

You still will need all other log backups prior to the current one as well as since the last full/diff backup.

A transform data task will do this in SQL 2000. SQL 7 has issues.  choose SQL Query and enter the stored procedure call on the source tab

What does that do? Sorry, not an Oracle guy.

NetIQ did a bunch of testing a couple years back and found after aroud 8-9 drives, you lose efficiency and performance in RAID 5 sets. So I wouldn't go there....

xp_sendmail has limited formatting options. I dropped ASPEmail on one of my servers and then use a DTS task (active X) to send a smaller email out to pagers/cell phones.

xp_sendmail has limited formatting options. I dropped ASPEmail on one of my servers and then use a DTS task (active X) to send a smaller email out to pagers/cell phones.

Noted and passed along to the developer.

Either the solution aobve (which seems simpler and less problem prone) or Profliler will work.

I've done something similar to that above to track conneciton counts.

We're working on cleaning up this page. It was completely custom for the upgrade and isn't exactly the same as the other one.

Do you have multiple backup devices listed? this sounds like a striping issue. Also be sure you have disk space if this is a disk backup.

Thanks for the update. I've run into this before as well and there was a fix from MS.

Apologies. We are working on this. The Active Topics wasn't a feature of the forum code we started with, so we are hacking our way through it. I agree since...

I agree with Allen. I might also run a couple more log backups in the middle of the night.

Used to be able to buy one from MS on the MSDN site, but I can't find it. I'll check and see if I can get a resource.