Once again, Backup Exec is biting me in the ass, figuratively speaking. My main fileserver is running under an abend condition caused by the “agent” software that allows me to get comprehensive backups from that server. During my attempt to upgrade the agent I ran into an annoying problem: The installer insisted that I close the agent software before doing the upgrade, but I’d already done so. I even called the “stop” procedure again just to be sure. No such luck. The same problem came up when I tried to upgrade the email server’s agent, so it’s not just a fluke thing with one machine.

So let’s see… right now I can’t reliably run a backup on either server until I can reboot them both and install the new software. When will that be happening? Not during business hours, I can assure you. This means I get to come back later tonight and go through this whole install procedure again.

It’s not quite how I wanted to spend the night before my personal holiday off, but I’m not always given much say in the matter, am I?