Hello,
You should describe all your methods in more details & provide 
configurations, logs etc so we can be of more assistance.
There is no problem with backups of any windows 2000 server in our 
environment, please let us know, what version on networker are you using, 
what type of applications,network settings etc.
Thanks

To sign off this list, send email to listserv AT listserv.temple DOT edu and 
type "signoff networker" in the body of the email. Please write to 
networker-request AT listserv.temple DOT edu if you have any problems with this 
list. You can access the archives at 
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/networker.html or
via RSS at http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?RSS&L=NETWORKER