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Rayza
Level 4
11 years ago

Stalled backups or Engine service not responding

I was using BE 12.5D (on 2008R2) for a few years with very few issues. I upgraded the software to 2012 SP4 and after getting used to the differences settled down to about 2 weeks of no issues. Then w...
2012
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • Rayza's avatar
    Rayza
    11 years ago

    I downloaded BE 2014 and upgraded all my licenses. I formated my server, installed 2012R2 and then BE 2014. I then did Once-off backups of all my servers and they all completed without any issues. Clearly there was something about BE2012 my server didn't like. The interface on 2014 is much better too.

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CraigV
Moderator
11 years ago

Hi Rayza,

 

The server specs look fine. I wouldn't worry about the server roles assigned to it either as I have run BE on a server acting as a DC, DNS, WINS, Exchange, and File and Printand it ran fine!

Couple of things to do:

1. Repair BE itself through Add/Remove Programs;

2. Repair the BEDB through BEutility.exe;

3. Backup the media server itself and see if it slows down too;

4. Make sure that any AV  installed on the media server and remote servers isn't blocking the BE services, and if so, put in exclusions for them.

Thanks!