the install was successful.. Thank you once again

Thank you, will give it a shot

why does the database have to be refreshed nightly and data should be writable to it at the destination?

Coming to possibilities, I was thinking of FTP for one, but that...

I mentioned it needs a restart of SQL services..:Whistling: Good to know its working now :-). Did you also have to put in exclusions for antivirus settings?

the other thing that could be blocking is antivirus. You have to go to the anti-virus console, find something like 'prevent mass mailing worms from sending mail', and add exclusion...

you need to enable mail profile for SQL Agent, by going to SQL Agent properties as listed in the link below. This is how the SQL server agent mail can...

what version of SQL is this?

don't know how exactly to say that... but users are supposed to use their domain accounts, if server is in the domain and it is suggested that applications use SQL...

yes, that is right.... regarding LSN, didn't know if the context was log shipping.. If so, the log shipping will be fine, no issues with full backups as salum mentioned..

could you please be more specific? Are you taking the backup interactively? Or, is this a job, and you are wondering how long it will take?

If you want to...