Just got a test sql 2005 system up and running and am in the process of testing backups of sql 2005 sp2. I loaded Veritas sp2 for 10.1d and am able to start backups but the byte count goes up a little then just stops. We are currently running mostly sql 2000 servers and they backup fine but I think we might have had to load the sql 2000 client tools on the Veritas server? Would we need to do the same for sql 2005? Thanks, Joe