BEutility revealed the fact that the server was stuck on pause, but doesn't include any mechanism to rectify the problem. Had I simply done a clean install right away, instead of wasting several days trying to un-pause the server, I'd have been back ...
I upgraded to BE2012 because my BE2010 server was stuck in a "paused" state and the solution, based on user feedback, was a clean install with a new database (then import and catalog existing media). So it seemed like a good time to install BE2012 s...
I have two servers that rarely need full backups. So in BE2010 I'd run a one-time manual full backup to tape when the backup window on the daily differential to disk became excesive. This could be two months, or six months depending on circumstance...