Comments on: Software to automate backups for SQL Server 2008 databases http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/software-to-automate-backups-for-sql-server-2008-databases/ Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:36:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: mrdenny http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/software-to-automate-backups-for-sql-server-2008-databases/#comment-64952 mrdenny Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:56:46 +0000 #comment-64952 According to the error you have provided the SQL Server Agent is not running. It needs to be started before you can run the maintenance plan. You can also get that error when creating a maintenance plan as the script which creates the job will through that error if the SQL Server Agent is not running. To start the SQL Agent, Open up Admin Tools, then services. Find the SQL Server Agent service and start it. Then you should be able to save your job and start it. According to the error you have provided the SQL Server Agent is not running. It needs to be started before you can run the maintenance plan. You can also get that error when creating a maintenance plan as the script which creates the job will through that error if the SQL Server Agent is not running.

To start the SQL Agent, Open up Admin Tools, then services. Find the SQL Server Agent service and start it. Then you should be able to save your job and start it.

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