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SuperBeta
Level 3
10 years ago

Backups don't complete - hangs on Active: Running - Backup

Just upgraded from a working install of Backup Exec 2012 to BE2014 14.1 with all update installed. Since upgrading, I have not had a single successful backup. I have deployed the 2014 backup agent to...
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Windows Server (2003-2008)
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    SuperBeta
    10 years ago

    Okay, after having all of these issues I decided to reinstall from 0. Had to catalog all of my previous backups but now everything seems to be working much better. Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Here's hoping I will continue to have a functioning backup product for a while.

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SuperBeta
Level 3
10 years ago

In further testing, it seems I am having additional issues as follows:

-Restores from previous backups captured using BE2012 will not restore, even when the restore is setup to recover the files locally on the media server. The jobs just remain Queued indefinately.

-Backups also hang in "Discovering Resourses" for hours; even a backup job that only backs up the media server itself hung up in this state.

-Cancelling jobs nearly always requires opening the Services Manager to restart all servers, in addition to manually killing the bengine.exe process in Task Manager. I suppose this is the same as it was in BE2012 too.

Are these types of issues common and able to be resolved. I'm considering uninstalling Backup Exec and installing it again without any old data or catalogs, but I don't want to loose the ability to restore old data. I'm also concerned if a fresh install will be aware of my old backup sets and be able to overwrite them as necessary without me having to manually prune them overtime. I have 8TB of backups I need to keep from BE2012.