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error: 0xe000ff12. A communications failure has occurred with an Exchange Store resource

Jmeraashli
Level 2

I have Backup exec 2012 revision 1798 installed on windows server 2008 r2. All was good until I installed Symantec Mail security for exchange.

 

the error Im having in backup exec is:

XXXXX.XXXX.local-Daily Full Backup-Full -- The job failed with the following error: A communications failure has occurred with an Exchange Store resource.

 

and in the exchange server in the event log I have this:

Exchange VSS Writer (instance ca45bf79-fc07-48d4-9eda-ae4ed28c2485:12) has completed the backup of database 'XXXXDB1' with errors. The backup did not complete successfully, and no log files were truncated for this database.

 

please advise.

Thank you

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CraigV
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Hi,

 

On the media server, open a command prompt and type: vssadmin list writers.

Any writers not stable and running are in error, and a server restart will normally sort this out. Also make sure that AOFO is turned off for the job.

Thanks!

Jmeraashli
Level 2

Hi Craih thank you for the reply.

 

all writers are stable and no errors.

AOFO is unchecked.

 

I used to backup the exchange with success until I installed the symantec mail security for exchange and symantec endpoint protection on exchange server.

 

my file server and crm crm are running on schedule with success after I followed a this forum and changed the port number that symantec endpoint protection uses.

but in symantec mail security I dont have an option to change ports.

 

please advise.

 

thank you

 

CraigV
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Turn off SEP on the Exchange server and try the backup again. If it goes through, check to see if SEP isn't perhaps blocking the beremote.exe service.

Thanks!

Jmeraashli
Level 2

Dear Craig unfortunately the same issue happen.

 

I disabled SEP also VSAPI in symantec mail security.

 

when I run the backup, I see the below for 3-4 minutes then the backup stops with the error mention above

status: queued       Operation: None

Bytes: 0              rate: 0.0mb/

 

thank you