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**Environment:** OS: Windows 2008 R2 SQL Server : 2008 R2 EE Shared NAS storage: NTFS (\\RemoteServerName\SharedFolderName) Permisisons on Shared folder: Full control Source DB model: Full recovery. **Snapshot DB Script:** CREATE DATABASE TestDB_Snapshot1 ON ( NAME = TestDB_data, FILENAME ='\\RemoteServerName\SharedFolderName\TestDB_Snapshot1.ss') AS SNAPSHOT OF TestDB GO Error: Msg 1823, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 A database snapshot cannot be created because it failed to start. Msg 5119, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Cannot make the file "\\RemoteServerName\SharedFilderName\TestDB_Snapshot1.ss" a sparse file. Make sure the file system supports sparse files. Questions 1. Can't we create snapshot database on remote server location if NTFS filesystem? Seen in below MS KL limitations, FAT32 not support snapshot databases. But our storage is NTFS filesystem(NAS storage). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175158.aspx#Prerequisites 2. Any suggestion to create snapshot on NAS storage area wihtout any sparse files errors? **Note:** I am able to create snapshot database if it is local disk on the server and not able to create if it remote server shared location Thanks in advance.