>Hi,
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>I am trying to get my dump devices to overwrite the old dumps rather than appending. According to the help, all I have to do is not check the "Initialize Device" options. This does not work; When I expnad a particular dump device, all dumps are shown there.

Turns out, this was a Doc error in the help file that deviously mislead me. The solution was to initialize the device each time you run the dump by changing "NOINIT" to "INIT" in the T-SQL that runs the dump.

Scot.