maintenance plan not working

[nuct]

Hi

I am at a complete loss with this problem. We have a maintnance plan which backs up our database over the network at 21:00 every week night. Sometime it works and sometimes is doesn't. When it doesn't the log says this:

BackupDiskFile::CreateMedia: Backup device 'S:\SQL_DATABASE\master_db_200501132340.BAK' failed to create. Operating system error = 3(error not found).

Does anyone know what operating system error 3 is and what could cause it.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Simon.

 

[SQLBill]

Look in the Windows Event Viewer logs on both the SQL Server machine and the machine where you are sending the backup. You might find related information there.

Is anyone doing a tape backup of the drive and files at that time?

Is there any network maintenance being performed?

-SQLBill

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