Backup Exec quickies
Couple of Backup Exec quickies, one tip and one question
Tip
If you run the live update and the download stops at 3000KB then the problem is possibly that you are going through a proxy, there's nothing wrong with your proxy, it is Live update which for some reason will get to 3000KB then suddenly decide to bypas the proxy and go direct. Why? nobody knows and Symantec seem deny it is happening. There is a fix, you go in to control panel, in to the Live Update settings. On the HTTP tab configure the proxy manually rather than letting LU work it out for itself, which it is incapable of doing.
This maybe a issue with IE 8, as I had IE9 beta on my PC and it was fine, but when I rolled back to IE8 I was suddenly afflicted by the issue, also a server that had IE7 never had the problem but sometime after IE8 was installed it started going wrong. This might be a red herring as Iit is just observations.
Question
Why when you move the BE DB, or try to upgrade it or do pretty much anything to the DB does it decide to restart SQL? This is fine if you have it on Express or MSDE but on a central shared SQL server it can be an unexpected surprise of the worst kind, one of those oops apocalypse type of things that cause an admin to clench everything, as that bonus goes down the drain.
I fail to see why Symantec feel this is necessary, it serves no purpose and just causes grief and unnecessary downtime. Stop it now.
Fortunately the latest version of SQL, 2008 R2, has a 10GB limit for DBs in the express version so should be sufficient for most BE installs, if it isn’t then you can probably afford to install a dedicated copy of the full version.
Tip
If you run the live update and the download stops at 3000KB then the problem is possibly that you are going through a proxy, there's nothing wrong with your proxy, it is Live update which for some reason will get to 3000KB then suddenly decide to bypas the proxy and go direct. Why? nobody knows and Symantec seem deny it is happening. There is a fix, you go in to control panel, in to the Live Update settings. On the HTTP tab configure the proxy manually rather than letting LU work it out for itself, which it is incapable of doing.
This maybe a issue with IE 8, as I had IE9 beta on my PC and it was fine, but when I rolled back to IE8 I was suddenly afflicted by the issue, also a server that had IE7 never had the problem but sometime after IE8 was installed it started going wrong. This might be a red herring as Iit is just observations.
Question
Why when you move the BE DB, or try to upgrade it or do pretty much anything to the DB does it decide to restart SQL? This is fine if you have it on Express or MSDE but on a central shared SQL server it can be an unexpected surprise of the worst kind, one of those oops apocalypse type of things that cause an admin to clench everything, as that bonus goes down the drain.
I fail to see why Symantec feel this is necessary, it serves no purpose and just causes grief and unnecessary downtime. Stop it now.
Fortunately the latest version of SQL, 2008 R2, has a 10GB limit for DBs in the express version so should be sufficient for most BE installs, if it isn’t then you can probably afford to install a dedicated copy of the full version.
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