jimbehningmvp
Thu Oct 23 20:36:02 CDT 2003
Send a note to Veritas marketing. I was extremely frustrated with this
same experience last year. The Veritas booth guy in New Orleans
partners meeting said the only way you can get what we need is to bend
the ear of marketting many times. I need to send them a note myself.
"Troy D. Young" <troy@emailwv.com> wrote:
>Joe is correct. You can back up remote workstations from BackupExec SBS
>Edition, but not remote servers. I had a rude awakening to this a couple of
>years ago because when you finish installed BE for SBS, it asks "Do you want
>to install Remote Backup Agent on any remote servers?" We ASSumed that it
>worked and proposed a solution to a client and ended up eating the
>difference in price to purchase the full versions. In fact, Veritas still
>does not make this clear on their web site in the sales literature, so I
>called them and they said that version 9.0 is the same deal. IMO, if
>Microsoft lets you have member servers in an SBS domain, Veritas should
>support backing them up with their SBS software. By the way, if you are
>still using 8.6, upgrade to 9.0--you won't regret it.
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>"Joe Moore" <joemoore3@ameritech.net> wrote in message
>news:PfTlb.3577$P%1.3143594@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com...
>> If you're using BE for SBS then you can't do it. Veritas claims that SBS
>is
>> a one server solution and you can't even add agents to get other servers
>to
>> work with that version of the software. Don't know if it applies but I
>> wanted to put it out there.
>>
>> Joe Moore
>>
>> "Bob" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:0a7201c39969$9fe0c6f0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> > I have a member server that we use for backups to a DLT
>> > external tape drive using Backup exec 8.6. I can get the
>> > backup to work for the data files that I select on the
>> > SBS server (remote) but I can't get it to backup up the
>> > exchange on the remote server I keep getting an RPC error
>> > and it stops the BE Job Engine in services. I have the
>> > Exchange agent license but it tells me to install the
>> > system manager component on the media server. Will this
>> > conflict with the Exchange system manager on the SBS
>> > server and how can I install just the system Manger
>> > without causing any issues..
>> >
>> > thanks in advance for your help.
>> >
>> > Bob
>> >
>>
>>
>
Jim B. SBS MVP
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