Thursday, October 22, 2009

Stoopid BackupExec RAWS32

When I tried to install the RAWS32 Windows Agent for BackupExec 12 on Server 2008, it didn't work. It just hangs, or freezes, take your pick.

Turns out the event log shows:
Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x800401F0

The BackupExec Media Server I put in needed to be the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name).

Wibble - didn't work
Wibble.mydomian.co.uk - did work

This seems a bit odd as both servers are in the same domain.