Hello all, I am having problems doing a backup of the SharePoint 2007 Server, served by SQL 2005 on a different machine. This worked once a week or so ago, but now I only get a "completed with errors" message. The content database failed to backup, with the error: "SqlException: Cannot open backup device &#39;" followed by the pathname of an expected .bak file. If there are 20 backup files in a particular backup, then the pathname abovewould be<name>21.bak. I am logged in using the setup account, can view the content database in Management Studio, but cannot back up the SharePoint site. Any help would be appreciated. David

Are you using a shared folder? I got this error when I was backing up directly to a folder (as in C:\backups rather than \\server\backups)

Fixed it for me. Thanks,

Such a Simple Fix... for a small problem... workd for me.. thannks

Yes this worked for me too, a simple fix once you know the answer but not very intuitive I'd say. Thanks

Very good tip - worked for me - thank you

Perfect solution. Thanks very much.Thanks, Sachin Jagtap