Re: Backing-up to UNC is failing, suggestions?

Sam,

You may wish to change the UNC path.  When I ran your script on my test server, adding the complete UNC path works:

declare @script nvarchar(4000)

set @script = N'

exec master.dbo.xp_backup_database

@database = N'LiteSpeedLocal',

@backupname = N'LiteSpeedLocal - Full Database Backup',

@desc = N'Full Backup of LiteSpeedLocal on 5/28/2013 7:59:45 AM',

@compressionlevel = 2,

@filename = N'\\Server_name\c$\Backup\2005\LiteSpeedLocal_201305280759.bak',

@init = 0,

@with = N'STATS = 10''''

exec (@script)

The SQL Server service account must have read/write/create permissions to the destination folder.