Thanks Antares, I'll try and get a hold of the guys that take care of the UNIX box we are connecting to today and see if they can check the...

Yes, I am following the same procedure with the same login and password.

Any ideas?

I don't think that is correct, If I log in to either node I can manually FTP the files from the UNIX box. If it were an IP/address issue...

The job will fail if it is run by the schedule or if the job is started manually. If I ftp in to the server from the command prompt...

I would try and back up to a physical disk then copy the .bak file to your USB drive. It could be that the I/O speed of the USB...

Yes up to now the failing node has always carried out the ftp and then the import of the transferred data. The errors are intermittent; I can not pinpoint...

Thank you Grasshopper.

anyone else have any other ideas?

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