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WATC · 04-07-2011

I am testing backups and restores of virtual machines backed up from a vSphere 4.1 U1 infrastructure. The backups seem to work fine, however restores take a very long time to complete. While troubleshooting I set up the simplest test I could think of...

WATC · 04-19-2011

This no longer seems to be an issue with Backup Exec 2010 R3. The test restores I've done have completed in a reasonable timeframe without stalling at the end.

WATC · 04-12-2011

The script connects to 'localhost' i.e. the server the script is running on. If you've done a custom install are you maybe using a SQL Server instance on another server? If so, you'll either need to run the script on that server, or change the con.Op...

WATC · 04-08-2011

Try adding -b to your netstat options so it shows which process has that port open, or verify that the shown process ID is the agent. Maybe it's something other than the BE agent?

WATC · 04-07-2011

May not be related, but it took me a while to think about checking this so I thought I'd mention it anyway in case someone else is in a similar situation. The account our Backup Exec 2010 setup uses is the same one our 12.5 setup used, and this was g...

WATC · 04-06-2011

Backup Exec does generate an alert when an update is available, which may be completely independent of whether you have the Symantec Live Update thing installed on the server. Not sure why it would be trying to access it so often though. Are you perm...

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VMware restore takes a long time to finish

Seems resolved in R3

Location of SQL Server

Try adding -b

vSphere permissions for BE account

Notification of updates?