We back up our SQL Server databases to a central storage machine using UNC paths in the BACKUP statement (BACKUP DATABASE db1 TO DISK='\\storage\Backups\db1... For a while, backups were failing with the message: BackupDiskFile::RequestDura... failure on backup device '\\storage\Backups\db1\db1.... Operating system error 64(The specified network name is no longer available.). I struggled for a while to find a solution and finally found this thread on www.msce.ms. Unfortunately that...