"network name is no longer available"

Hi all,
I'm having a problem with backing up SQL to a network share, often I would
get the "network name is no longer available". Sometimes it works and
sometimes it doesn't. During the backup, both servers - source and
destination are at minimal cpu , memory and network utilization. Network
drivers are also up to date. OS has sp4. Has anyone come across this
before? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
I ran into this myself sometimes an these are a few thing I would look for
answers in: What do the SQL Server Error logs say and what do the
application logs on the server say? Is the server you are backing up on a
NAS box or use IDE drives or SCSI drives? Is the server holding the backups
using a static IP address? Does this problem only occur on this one server
holding the backup or on any server you try?
Depending on these answers the problem should be isolated more.
Bryan Bitzer MCP
Senior Database Administrator
Marshall & Swift / Boeckh
www.msbinfo.com
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> Hi all,
> I'm having a problem with backing up SQL to a network share, often I would
> get the "network name is no longer available". Sometimes it works and
> sometimes it doesn't. During the backup, both servers - source and
> destination are at minimal cpu , memory and network utilization. Network
> drivers are also up to date. OS has sp4. Has anyone come across this
> before? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
>
|||If the network map is \\servername\share it can be a WINS Issue.
You might try \\servername.domain.com\share and see if that fixes the problem.
Tim S
|||Hi,
You seem to be running into the issue described in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base Article No 293403. Please go through the following link to review the
article.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=293403
Hope this resolve the issue. Please keep me updated on the status.
Thanks
Vijay