Error doing manual backup

I'm sitting at the server itself (SQL 2005 Standard), logged in as admin and
get an error trying to backup to a local drive:
Cannot verify the existence of the backup file location.
I read how this usually refers to backing up to a network share or
something, but this is a local drive. I tried it logged in to the Management
Studio as trusted and SQL authentication.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Hi
You may want to check backing up to a different directory, if that works it
must be ralated to the directory in which you are backing up to, such as
permissions.
John
"ricky252525" wrote:

> I'm sitting at the server itself (SQL 2005 Standard), logged in as admin and
> get an error trying to backup to a local drive:
> Cannot verify the existence of the backup file location.
> I read how this usually refers to backing up to a network share or
> something, but this is a local drive. I tried it logged in to the Management
> Studio as trusted and SQL authentication.
> Any ideas? Thanks!
|||Thanks, I tried that. Even tried to backup right to C, just for fun
--didn't work. Other suggestions?
"ricky252525" wrote:

> I'm sitting at the server itself (SQL 2005 Standard), logged in as admin and
> get an error trying to backup to a local drive:
> Cannot verify the existence of the backup file location.
> I read how this usually refers to backing up to a network share or
> something, but this is a local drive. I tried it logged in to the Management
> Studio as trusted and SQL authentication.
> Any ideas? Thanks!
|||ricky252525 wrote:
> I'm sitting at the server itself (SQL 2005 Standard), logged in as admin and
> get an error trying to backup to a local drive:
> Cannot verify the existence of the backup file location.
> I read how this usually refers to backing up to a network share or
> something, but this is a local drive. I tried it logged in to the Management
> Studio as trusted and SQL authentication.
> Any ideas? Thanks!
Is the SQL Server service running as a domain user or as Local System?
Which domain user? What rights does that domain user have on the local
machine?
Tracy McKibben
MCDBA
http://www.realsqlguy.com
|||Hi
If you have checked/changed the service accounts as Tracy has suggested then
what message do you get if you back this up using a T-SQL script?
John
"ricky252525" wrote:
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> Thanks, I tried that. Even tried to backup right to C, just for fun
> --didn't work. Other suggestions?
> "ricky252525" wrote: