Hi
My company recently purchased backup exec 12.5 and I am having a problem installing it. Everything goes smoothly till the installation gets to the point of asking where to place the database. Now because of my current server setup the media server for backup exec has too be installed on the database server (running SQL server 2000 SP4).
Now the problem I am getting is when the installation asks where to place the database I select my existinng instance of SQL server 2000 on the current database server however backup exec installation throws up an error message saying "The Microsoft SQL server <server name> is not a valid SQL server instance on which to install the database. Select an instance on which either of the following are installed : SQL server 2000 with service pack 3a (or later) SQL server 2005 with service pack 2 (or later) or SQL server 2008". Please See screen shot attached to this post.
I already have SP4 installed for SQL server 2000 so why would backup exec tell me the local instance of SQL is not valid? I even reinstalled SP4 just to make sure it was there but the install still doesn't work. The server itself passes the environment check and backup exec realises that SQL server 2000 SP4 is installed but then why does it not allow me to install the database on it.
I would really prefer not to have to use SQL server express as the last time I installed that it didn't work out to well with SQL server 2000 and when I came back into server 2003 I couldn't get backup exec to open, it kept telling me that some service couldn't be started (even though I tried restarting all backup exec services many times).
Can some one help me with this issue because until I can get it sorted I cannot do or restore any backups which makes me VERY uncomfortable.
Thanks.