Hey ya'll, new to BE 12 and the forum. I have a problem that I cannot figure out. Sometime after the successful nightly backup the following message pops up: "Communications are down with the Backup Exec Services. Check to see if Backup Exec Services are running on <server>." I start all the services and all runs fine until sometime that night after the successful backup the Backup Exec services are stopped. I enabled debug logging yesterday and got a log from last night. Any and all help would be appreciated. Running Microsoft Server 2003 Standard Edition 32-bit Version with SP2 on a HP ProLiant ML350 with a HP Storageworks DAT160 tape drive. Thanks!