Hello
We currently run BE2010 R3 - fully updated, on a Windows Server 2003 which is acting as a DFS server and primary data server.
The setup is the same for all three of our offices.
For the past 2 weeks BackExec has not been "behaving itself" and working as it should, quietly working away processing 2 differential jobs a day with a backup to disk job.
The 2 jobs are data and Enterprise vault/Exchange and the backup to disk is the sharepoint database. this backup to disk then backs up to the data job.
at the end of the week we do a Full data backup and a full EV/Exchange job.
After running for 2 weeks back exec started generating errors on all the jobs that we run.
Jobs were reporting the status as "missed" but then another job entry in the job monitor showed as "recovered" and appears to have completed the backup job. This is the case for the EV/Exchange job and the Sharepoint B2D but the data job failed outright as it is reporting as having missed its timeslot during which as far as I can tell nothing else was running.
There are several event log entries in Windows event logs relating to backup exec services failing
"Event Type: Error
Event Source: BEDBG
Event Category: (1)
Event ID: 258
Date: 04/03/2013
Time: 19:37:06
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
Process bengine.exe requested memory dump but the maximum number of memory dumps has already been reached."
"Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: (100)
Event ID: 1000
Date: 04/03/2013
Time: 19:37:09
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
Faulting application bengine.exe, version 13.0.5204.128, faulting module msvcr80.dll, version 8.0.50727.6195, fault address 0x000149d1.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 62 65 6e ure ben
0018: 67 69 6e 65 2e 65 78 65 gine.exe
0020: 20 31 33 2e 30 2e 35 32 13.0.52
0028: 30 34 2e 31 32 38 20 69 04.128 i
0030: 6e 20 6d 73 76 63 72 38 n msvcr8
0038: 30 2e 64 6c 6c 20 38 2e 0.dll 8.
0040: 30 2e 35 30 37 32 37 2e 0.50727.
0048: 36 31 39 35 20 61 74 20 6195 at
0050: 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 offset 0
0058: 30 30 31 34 39 64 31 00149d1 "
This is not the first time we have seen this behaviour with Backup Exec with these same jobs.
Nothing else has changed and all hardware is functioning as it should.
Last time this happened it was resolved with several server restarts and updating Backup Exec. But this is no longer an option as Live update says there are no further updates required. and the server restarts have to be done out of hours as its the main data server. The reason why we attached the tape drive to it and use it as our BE media server as well is that the backups are processed quicker.
any help or advice would be welcome.
updating to BE 2012 is not an option as this inexplicably fails every time I have tried to perform the migration.
