BACKUP EXEC 2010 R2 & EXCHANGE 2003
Hi,
I have a problem with backup exec 2010 and exchange 2003.
I have a W2K8 R2 server, with BE 2010 R2. I need to backup the mailboxes of one W2K3 SP2 server with Exchange 2003. All with the last updates.
When I start the backup, the agent stops and the backup fail. The error is:
Exchange server:
Reporting queued error: faulting application beremote.exe, version 13.0.4164.109, faulting module BEDSMBox.dll, version 13.0.4164.108, fault address 0x00026015.
Backup Exec server (obviously):
Completed status: Failed
Final error: 0xe0000f04 - The media server could not connect to the remote computer. The remote computer may not be running the Backup Exec
Remote Agent for Windows/Linux. Make sure that the correct version of the Remote Agent is installed and running on the target computer.
Final error category: Resource Errors
For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-3844
But if i start the agent manually in the exchange server, before the backup exec fails, the backup works, but with transfers of 10 MB/min.
This is with all the Exchange 2003 servers.
Somebody can help me?
Are you performing Information Store backups (with or without GRT enabled)? OR are you using the legacy (old style) individual mailbox backup method?
Reason for question is we do have an internally documented issue with Legacy Mailbox backups crashing beremoet.exe that is due to have a public document written soon (the issue was only docuemented internally 2 days ago)
BTW as long as you have enough disk space GRT Information Store backups save a huge amount of time over Legacy Mailbox backups
1) The MAPI level Legacy Mailbox backup is a lot slower than an IS backup with GRT enabled
2) If you do a Legacy Mailbox backup for DR purposes you have to also do an Information Store backup (which adds to the backup time)
3) As long as you do the GRT IS backup to disk then the restore process is a lot quicker than the legacy mailbox
Yes there are some complications if you want your Exchange data on tape - Symantec suggest you backup to disk and then duplicate to tape for off-site DR purposes. Any individual mail item restores would then be from disk (so fast) and in the case of a DR you would be restoreing the complete IS from tape so not subject to staging the backup to disk first (which is the thing that slows down the tape based GRT restore)
