bexec 2010 sp1 appears to work fine on 2012 (pre R2)

[basilwt]

Hi All,

sorry if this is a silly question, but we have bexec 2010 running on a 2012 system, and it works. I thought that its not supposed to work on a 2012 box? The SCL states that one cant install a media server on 2012, and that is a limitation of 2010 R3 , which we are not even running ,its plain old 2010 sp1.

I see in services that the bexecdevicemediaservice is running, and backups to the SAS LTO library work wihtout issue. I havent tested a restore yet but will do that still.

If I click on licensing, I see I have Managed Media Server Licensed, but not installed - so I am a little confused as I thought you needed the media server for bexec to run. We have a bunch of other servers but no agents or anything related to symantec installed on them. Under Licensing Bexec Server is licensed an d installed, and some other options as well.

How is it that this is working?

[pkh · Accepted solution]

When you run an unsupported configuration like yours and it works, you are lucky. However, you don't know when things are going to break. You might find yourself in a situation where you are unable to recover your server. With an unsupported configuration, you will not be able to get help from Symantec