We use Symantec Backup Exec to backup files to tape drives daily. I added a Linkstation Pro to our network for more storage space, but I can't get Backup Exec to connect to it. I tried installing Remote Agent, I tried doing user-defined selections, I tried connecting to the network through a workgroup and an Active Directory domain, but nothing has worked. I can't use the Linkstation if I can't backup the files on it.
Thanks.
Please check out this link http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/254193.htm
symantec has a nice how to on Buffalo products.
That is one of the methods I linked in my post. It did not work. I even tried adding the Linkstation admin login to the Resource Credentials, but I still get this error:
"Access to this device is not authorized with this version of Backup Exec."
I have version 10.
DaVinci,
I know we use an older version of Backup Exec on one of our servers for our tape backups and it will not work for the buffalo drive. We do, however, use BackupAssist which is just a very nice "addon" to NT Backup. It allows you to set schedules, different schemes (append or replace), and it's pretty user friendly/intuitive. Best of all, it's cheap @ $230. But dont expect more than 3-5 MB/s over your 1000Mb network. Atleast that is the throughput we're experiencing.
Good luck bud, let me know if I can help you out.
Kyle
I have not been able to get Backup Exec to work with the TerraStation in either version 10d on Server2003 or 9.1 on MS Small Biz Server.
i can get as far as setting the backup up on the 9.1 version, but it fails the test run:
Test run status : Failed
Logon account check status : Failed
on the newer version, I get the same "no auth on this version" message
If I recall correctly I got around this by creating an entry for the Buffalo device in the hosts file, then Backup Exec would let me use it as a Backup-to-Disk folder. Now I'm trying to find a way to get BE to let me use a LinkStation Pro Duo (not integrated with AD, so I think I will get credentials issues).
Edit: Turns out the LinkStation Pro Duo is AD integrated. I did it in the same fashion I described, by creating a hosts entry for it and it works just fine.
I have BE 9.1 on a SBS2003 box. I have created the backup to disk folder pointing to the Terrastation and it ALMOST works...
I've got over 1 TB available on the RAID and I'm only trying to backup Exchange data (<32GB). It's failing to see/allocate the capacity correctly.
THoughts?
Using BE 10d for SBS. Buffalo Link Station Pro. Works great. But it took a few tweaks to get there.
1) had to set up "userdefined preferences" under the menu for selections in BE. This was described in one of the links in this thread.
2) The default user "admin" for the Buffalo drive had to be added to active directory with admin priviledges.
3) after that I had to set BE services to run with the credentials of the newly added "admin" user... then restart the BE services. The menu for the services is under the Tools menu in Backup Exec.
4) Restart Backup Exec... and I was then able to create the backup to file folders on the Buffalo and schedule the jobs.
Tomster2