Posted by John Bell on 09/15/05 21:23

Hi Trevor

That would rule out permissions for the account.

Do you know what type of backup the maintenance plan is doing?

Have you tried dropping the plan and creating a new one?

John

"Trevor Best" <googlegroups@besty.org.uk> wrote in message
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>I tried backing up to a different directory (c:\backup) where another
> SQLAgent job successfully backs up using just a "backup database"
> command, the backup database command works in this directory but the
> maintenance plan doesn't.
>
> I will see if I can get their IT guy to make SQLServer and SQLAgent to
> run as Administrator user and see if that helps.
>

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