relocating Outlook Business Contact manager

snerscho

I am trying to relocate the database folder of Outlook's Business
Contact Manager (BCM) to a share directory for easy back-up procedure.
I have tried everything but it seems impossible. Already posted this
question in BCM discussion group and got the hint that MS-SQL Server
(8.00.2039) might not allow the use of a share directory but there
might be a way around it. Can anyone help me out here.
Running W2K SP4 with Office 2003 SBE with BCM all completely updated
and overall running smoothly.

Jun 27 '08 #1

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Erland Sommarskog

(sn******@gmail .com) writes:

I am trying to relocate the database folder of Outlook's Business
Contact Manager (BCM) to a share directory for easy back-up procedure.
I have tried everything but it seems impossible. Already posted this
question in BCM discussion group and got the hint that MS-SQL Server
(8.00.2039) might not allow the use of a share directory but there
might be a way around it. Can anyone help me out here.
Running W2K SP4 with Office 2003 SBE with BCM all completely updated
and overall running smoothly.

I have no idea BCM is, and where SQL Server comes into the picture. What I
can say is that the databases for SQL Server should not be on a network
share, seen from the perspective of SQL Server. That does not preclude
putting your databases elsewhere, but you should have SQL Server in the
same place as well.

As for backing up SQL Server databases, this should be done from within
SQL Server, and not from Windows.
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