Log shipping to UNC path issues?

  • Hello,

    We're doing log shipping between two SQL 2008 Enterprise boxes (with a NAS box in between) and occasionally run into issues where SQL seems to think the NAS has dropped offline, when it has not.

    Basic flow is pretty boring, but here it is:

    SQL Server1 -(LAN)-> NAS -(WAN)-> SQL Server2

    We get the normal "The operating system returned the error '64(The specified network name is no longer available.)'" error message when it's trying to write the backup.

    The source SQL server has free memory, is not overloaded and is sitting on a 10GBe link on the same subnet as our NAS device, which has plenty of free resources/space and is also on a 10GBe link. The service accounts have appropriate permissions, etc.

    Is there anything else I should look at here, or do I just need to start dropping my backups off to a local share on the SQL server?

  • Could be network problems.

    I would be inclined to to the backups onto a local share and then have them copied to the other server.

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