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Kingston · 04-22-2012

Hello, We have some SQL servers and a Sharepoint server. Using BE 2012 . Wondering whether having the Agent for Apps & DBs is required to perform a successful backup of our SQL and Sharepoint Servers? Note, we don't need granular restore. We are happ...

Kingston · 03-07-2012

I have recently upgraded BE 2010R3 to BE 2012. It resides on a server called SERVER1. I am trying to backup this server (ie.e the server that hosts BE) and I am getting this failure error: Unable to attach to SERVER1\BKUPEXEC V-79-57344-33932 - Unabl...

Kingston · 03-06-2012

Hello, I have upgraded from BE 2012R3 to BE 2012. I have gone through relevant bits of the 1342 paged Admin Guide, and now have some questions. I realise that in BE2012 backups are now "server-centric" rather than job-centric, and that during the upg...

Kingston · 07-10-2012

We have also switched to Veeam. We first started using Backup Exec in 2010 for our Hyper-V Cluster, but have always found it unreliable. One day it will work, and the next day it will fail without anything being changed. I spent many weekends trying ...

Kingston · 07-10-2012

I have to agree that having to reboot each server that requires an agent update to be time consuming. With the remote agents being a windows system service surely they could be programmed in such a way as to just require a system service restart?

Kingston · 05-08-2012

You make good points Rob, but I get the feeling that many people stick with BE because of tape support. There are many times I've looked into other backup software and then realised that it didn't support tape .. so I disregarded that product (even t...

Kingston · 05-07-2012

I havent noticed a single positive post in favour of BE2012 in this thread. I realise that forums are usually biased towards people complaining, but there are always at least a few that will relay positive experiences .. but they don't seem to exist ...

Kingston · 04-24-2012

+1 to what PCTeamAdmin said. People can live with the Disney-esque new interface, but just don't make their jobs harder. A Simple / Advanced mode selector would give the best of both worlds. Personally, I'm sticking with BE 2012 because I find Hyper-...

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BE 2012 : Unable to attach to SERVER1\BKUPEXEC

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You make good points Rob, but

I havent noticed a single

+1 to what PCTeamAdmin