Monday 8 June 2009

So it just died....

About a week ago our Backup Exec CASO box decided it had had enough of talking to Managed Media Servers. Randomly declaring known working servers to be "unavailable".

The usual checks started, and nothing. Patches checked, removed etc. Nothing.

The solution. Search for any msgq*.dat files on your servers. Delete them.

Voila. Everything works... I'm not happy...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi,

I enjoyed reading through your excursions with the BE and found it funny and informative. I would like to contact you about a similar issue I'm experiencing at the moment with CASO and MMS devices. It somehow relates to this post of yours. We've been struggling now for almost 7 days with the problem. We implemented BE about 6 mnths ago and since the start of July BE gave us some frustrating error messages.

Anyway if you do not mind I would like to contact you via e-mail to ask your advice, if possible.

Thank You
JL

The Backup Exec Goat said...

Hello,

If you let us know your e-mail address, I'll drop you an e-mail and see if I can offer anything help wise.