Thanks very much the company policy is that we shouldnt ask the customer at remote site for assistance and so that is why tapes,dvd writers are out. To try FTP...

If you want to do the same continously a pause is necessary. I still agree that it is not the best way for this application but I have to support...

Not so much of a perfect application but it receives data continously and has to be pre-processed before loading into a second DB.

Thanks very much I will have a look

The application does not access any other database and I am able to run another package using the same server so that rules out permissions.