Old and new Backup exec working together?
I am having a problem connecting to the local server in BE 8.6 while the remote agent service is running...
We are running BE 12.5 on a Win 2008 box in our HQs. (machine 1)
We pushed the remote agent onto a remote win 2000 Server box and have had no issue. (machine 2)
We currently would like to be able to back up locally (with the BE 8.6 which is loaded on the server)
While the remote agent (service) is running on the machine 2, we have tried to schedule a job in BE 8.6
Trying to attach the media server, we "error out". "can not connect to media server press F5"....
With the remote agent (service) not running it connects fine and we have no issue (beside we would like to be able to back up certain sensative files remotely. to machine 1.
Is there a way with our current scheme to be able to back up both locally as well as remotely?
You will need to upgrade your
No. You will need to upgrade your BE 8.6 to BE12.5
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The problem is that there is
The problem is that there is a conflict between the 12.5 remote agent and the 8.6 media server on the same hardware - assuming 8.6 used an NDMP connection between the Server processes locally (which 9.1 defintely did) then after 9.1 the direction of NDMP connectivity changed to make it easier to configure firewalls - this change willl totally mess up what you are trying to do and cause the problems you are having.
Bear in mind that officially Backwards compatibility is ONLY when remote agent is a lower version than media server and is only supported one or 2 versions back. You are in effect going 9 versions forward and expecting foward compatibility to work...
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