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Do you have client agents installed on your servers? The pre/post within the JOB on your backup server ONLY runs on the backup server. EVERY client agent has to be configured for its own pre/post jobs/commands. Hope that helps.

I recommend both the OS agent and the BAOF agent on that machine. The OS Client agent will provide better use of your network resources, as it is a push agent. The Backup Agent for Open Files SHOULD remedy the message you are getting, which indicates that a user or application (potentially your...

If you are trying to backup the exchange database files, while exchange is still running, without using an exchange agent, the backup is worthless. This is because the files are in use, and will be out of syncronization. Hope that makes a bit more sense.

Please also keep in mind that CA is dropping support for Arcserve 2000 at the end of March, because version 9 has been out over a year now, and Arcserve 11 is due out in the next month or two. More information here: http://support.ca.com/techbases/asnt/bab_drop.html

You're gonna neeed to use a physical label to do it. There is no way to rename the tape, without formatting it.

The CLIENT AGENT technology in BAB 9.x allows you to select on the CLIENT system which IP address to use for communications with the backup server. For the person that started this thread, regarding exchange, you're doing COLD backups right? If you are trying to backup the stores (at their FILE...

Windows does not have that capability. Novell Netware does. The best you can do is to share out the directory and give the users CHANGE access to the share, and CHANGE access at the NTFS level. Remember that by putting a $ at the end of the share name, it will be "hidden". i.e...

How many slots in your changer, how many tapes in the changer, and how many of them are BLANK?

Most customers will put a filter inplace to filter out \mssql\data. You MAY also want to schedule a WEEKLY or MONTHLY cold backup of the entire server, controlling all of the application/DB related services via a pre/post jobs, assuming you are allowed weekly/monthly downtime.

Assuming you are licensed for 2KAS, go for it. It doesn't run any slower than 2K standard, just adds support for more memory, more processors, and clustering support.

From a default install, IIS 6.0 is configured in complete lockdown mode, meaning it will ONLY serve static HTML content, every thing else needs to be enabled. Visit these sites for more info: -...

Visit sysinternals.com and download the PSTOOLS suite. In that suite is a tool that allows you to execute commands remotely.

The only method via the GUI (in v9) is to make use of the RAID option, and create a mirrored set of tapes when doing your backups. There is no GUI to the tapecopy command as of yet.

2003 Server is 15-25% FASTER than 2000 server for file and print services, on identical hardware. Don't put your money in old versions of products, ever. :)

CA does not support use of the product without Admin rights to the box. I've tried some workarounds, and none of them helped.