The common practice is to just do a full backup of the master database. It's usually very small and changes to it are infrequent. A full database backup will make restoring the master much easier also.

-Mike

>Hello All.
>Just installed MS SQL 2000 Professional.
>Everything is clean.
>Created maintenance plan to automate Master backups.
>Then tryed to execute jobs one by one.
>All worked except for Transaction Log backup.
>Looked at the History, it simply says that the job failed.
>
>What gives? (if it's a correct question since i'm not a native English speaker)
>
>Thank you.