Deduplication folder stays offline
Forum, We upgraded Backup Exec from 2010-R3 to 2012-SP1. We have the dedupe option for both versions. The upgrade was done two weeks ago and we have been running dedupe jobs successfully. Now the deduplication folder will not come online. We have about 10TB of backups extending back 6 months. Under “Storage” this message is displayed next to the dedupe folder: This device has not been discovered correctly. Cycle the services on _CoSRV-BEX to retry device discovery. This alert is also logged: Backup Exec was unable to initialize and communicate with the device [SYMANTECOstLdr MACF] (The handle is invalid.). Click the link below for more information on how to diagnose the problem. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=answers&startover=y&question_box=V-275-1017 note the above link is for 2010, not 2012. Actions taken: Using the BE Services mgr, the services were recycled (many times) – no improvement. The server was rebooted – no improvement. Using the BE Services mgr, the services (including the dedupe services) were recycled – no improvement. The server and drive array were powered off and powered back on. All is normal. We did recycle the services with and without the dedupe services after this power up - no improvement. FYI We have a Dell PowerEdge R710 and an MD1200 array for the local D: drive, which has the dedup folder and nothing else. The server runs Win Server 2008R2 and has 64GB RAM. There are no hardware errors. The physical array is normal and drive D can be browsed. Live Update shows we are up-to-date. Some google searches suggest solutions for 2010, not 2012 . . . that the solution is to remove the target servers from the devices window, and disable client side dedupe. How can that be done in 2012? I have opened a support ticket with Symantec, but I cannot get them to call me back. Symantec advises that they will have the Deduplication support team call me back. I was promised a call back 3 ½ hours ago, but that hasn’t happened. I have called back twice with the ticket number and been shunted over to the voice mail of engineer that owns the ticket. Is there any hope for this? Should I look for a replacement to Backup Exec? ... Frustrated and hoping we don't have to restore anything.Solved4.2KViews25likes2CommentsBackup Job Rate more than halved when backing up Hyper-V VM vs Physical Server
Hi, We recently P2Ved one of our fileservers, prior to which we were able to backup with a job rate of 2GB+/min and a total backup runtime of around 15 hours. Since P2Ving the server, we now only get a job rate of around 900MB/min and the total runtime is now around 32 hours. Does anybody know why the job rate would have drop so significantly? Environment Details: We have gigabit ethernet between the VM host and iSCSI SAN (Dell Powervault MD3200i) and we backup to tape (a Dell PowerVault TL2000) The VM is a Hyper-V VM running on a Hyper-V cluster but we are not using the Hyper-V agent for backing up, just the standard RAWS agent, OS is W2K8 R2 Standard The server BE is installed on is physical with the tape library connect via SAS, BE version is 2010 R3 SP1, OS is W2K8 R2 Enterprise Cheers Adam.Solved1.2KViews7likes4CommentsUnable to establish trust with...
I just recently installed Backup Exec 2012 on Windows 2003 std ed, the problem that I have is that I could not establish trust with a server domain controller if the credentials of the user are not an Administrator of the domain, the backup on this same server with the previous version was made with an user of the group backup opertator. The message error is: Calling Method 'setservertrust' BEMSDK Method 'MediaserverAdvertisementUpdate' BEMSDK Failure Code: -5363831117:X8643Views5likes4CommentsBE2010 Slow Windows 2008 System State Backup
Has anyone tried BE2010 with a 2008 server system state backup? I'm seeing the same problem I saw with 12.5 that the system state slows to a crawl during backup. This was supposedly fixed in 12.5sp2, but apparantly it's still an issue in 12.5 - http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/336283.htm, and I'm seeing it in 2010 Here are the results of backing up a 2008R2 Enterprise DC with BE2010 installed (latest live updates) attached to a LTO3 drive on an HP DL380G5. c: drive backup: Backed up 11514 files in 2660 directories. Processed 13,728,690,754 bytes in 3 minutes and 31 seconds. Throughput rate: 3723 MB/min Compression Type: Hardware System State backup: Backed up 18 System State components Processed 6,972,047,332 bytes in 24 minutes and 2 seconds. Throughput rate: 277 MB/min Compression Type: Hardware When I backup a 2003 server I have no performance issues. Hopefully I'm not the only one seeing issues! TomSolved5KViews4likes44CommentsSecurity Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970892) fails to install
Microsoft released Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970892) on October patch Tuesday. It fails to install on the SQL Express 2005 SP3 x64 BKUPEXEC instances on two of my my BEWS 12.5 SP2 media servers, as well as on a couple of other servers running SQL Express 2005 SP3 with other products, e.g. VMware vCenter Server, HP Digital Sending Software 4.0. Various forum posts found by Google suggest that having any of the SQL Server services disabled may cause this problem. In my case, the only disabled service is SQL Server Active Directory Helper. This service can be set to manual, but it will not start, and just setting it to manual doesn't solve the problem. These posts also suggest that having the SQL Server program folder compressed can cause the error, but this is not applicable to my situation. I took a look at the Windows Update log and other than an error message with the return code 0x0000737d, I didn't see any useful information. I also looked at the hotfix installation log at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\LOG\Hotfix\SQL9_Hotfix_KB970892_sqlrun_sql.msp.log, and found the error message: "Error 29565. SQL Server Setup cannot upgrade the specified instance because the previous upgrade did not complete. Start the Remote Registry service and go to Add/Remove Programs, select the Change button for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and then select SQL instance HPDSDB and complete the setup." The description of this security update at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970892, in the More Information section, lists four TechNet articles with troubleshooting procedures for known issues. Article 955250 seems like it may be applicable, although the error message doesn't match. I'm still trying to work through this. The security update is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0d878f4b-71e8-4170-9a14-1bce684811ce&displaylang=en for anybody who does not wish to rely on Windows Update. Thanks for any additional thoughts that anyone may have.Solved6.4KViews4likes28CommentsBackup Exec Server does not start
After migration from Backup Exec 2010 to BE 2012 SP1, the Backup Exec Server Process (beserver.exe) does not start anymore. Therefore is not possible to connect to the Backup Exec Application. In the MS Event Log the following Message is logged: Application: beserver.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: exception code c0000005, exception address 00000000014B44EC If the service is startet from the service Window it terminates with error 1067. I would be glad if someone can provide me helt soon.340Views3likes3CommentsExchange Server 2007 SP3 upgrade always failed due to the Backup agent ?
Hi, I don't know why everytime I tried to manually upgrade Exchange Server 2007 SP1 into SP3 directly on my WIndows Server 2003 as DOMAIN\Administrator (Enterprise admin role) I always end up in the following error state one of them being beremote it must be i need to stup / uninstall Backup Exec remote agent before I install the SP3 ? Summary: 3 item(s). 0 succeeded, 3 failed. Elapsed time: 00:00:27 Hub Transport Role Prerequisites Failed Error: You must be a member of the Exchange Organization Administrators group to upgrade the first Hub Transport server role in your organization to Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3. Error: Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the 'beremote' () process (ID: 1472) has open files. Close the process and restart Setup. Elapsed Time: 00:00:15 Client Access Role Prerequisites Failed Error: You must be a member of the Exchange Organization Administrators group to upgrade the first Client Access server role in your organization to Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3. Error: Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the 'beremote' () process (ID: 1472) has open files. Close the process and restart Setup. Elapsed Time: 00:00:05 Mailbox Role Prerequisites Failed Error: You must be a member of the Exchange Organization Administrators group to upgrade the first Mailbox server role to Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3. Error: Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the 'beremote' () process (ID: 1472) has open files. Close the process and restart Setup. Elapsed Time: 00:00:05 can anyone suggest to me how to proceed please ? Thanks.Solved1.4KViews3likes3CommentsSOLVED: 2010 Beutility shows server paused, devices does not.
EDIT: I called Symantec support and they tracked it down to Symantec Hotfix 354913. In Windows Server 2008 R2 you'll need to go to Programs and Features under Control Panel, click on "view installed updates" then go down to the Symantec section. Locate Hotfix 354913. This will stop your BUE services, remove the hotfix and then start up your services again. Then open up BUE, go to devices, right click on your server name and select pause again. This time I did not get any errors, it just paused it. I then right click on my server name and unpaused it. Then I went back into BEUtility and refreshed the view and confirmed that the server status had changed from "server paused" to "running". We then ran a export, import and quick erase, all task that were not working with this issue that were once again functioning as desired. ***************************************************************************** Out of the blue yesterday it started that my Backup Exec 2010 with all the latest updates running on a Server 2008 R2 Standard OS just stopped allowing me to import, export or erase tapes. Scheduled jobs seems to run without issue but without being able to import, export or erase tapes, I'll be out of available tapes soon. If i remove my tape library from my backup server and manually do a import or export, it works, but if I have the tape library connected via it's SAS cables, it tells me that it cannot complete the task as there is a lock on it from another source. The robot is a Dell ML6000. I spent 3 hours with Dell support today and have pretty well concluded that the issue is not the robot. He suggested checking to see if the server status was paused under the devices tab and it does not show that it is. If I launch BEUtility it does show "server paused" under status though. As a number of post out there suggest, I right clicked on the server name under devices and click on "pause" and it comes back with a message stating "Unable to pause servername" when I click on "OK" though it shows the status of the server as paused. Then if I go and right click again to unpause it, it pops up a error stating "Unable to resume servername" and again if I click on "OK" it does actually change the displayed status as unpaused but any jobs that were in a hung state still don't run anyway. I've rebooted the server numerous times and verified all the services are started. As I started off with, this server was working perfectly for a few months as is and nothing was changed or done that provoked this to my knowledge. I'm at a total loss. Is there any other way to try and force this server to unpause?1.7KViews3likes7Comments