Maybe reinstalling?
"Torgeir F" wrote in message
news:3e1d6e6d$1@hronntp01....
>
> Hey all
>
> I've got a problem.
> Recently my backup exec 8.5 hasn't been working.
> The reason for this is that the backup exec job engine service hangs in a
> pending state. "starting", if i look in administrative tools->services.
> I've tried to restart the server with no luck. I've also tried to stop all
> the other backup services but they all reject to stop because they can't
> end the job engine service.
>
> What happened before it started to hang:
> Backup exec wouldn't start at all , displaying the message: another server
> with the same serialnumber exists in the network. Since that server no
longer
> takes care of the backup i disabled all the backupexec services on that
one.
> After that I was allowed to start up backup exec.
>
> Has anyone the faintest idea of how to get around this?
>
>
>

I've tried reinstalling the whole thing,
but it still hangs.
The message i get in eventwiever is:

The Backup Exec 8.x Job Engine service hung on starting.


>Maybe reinstalling?
>"Torgeir F" wrote in message
>news:3e1d6e6d$1@hronntp01....
>>
>> Hey all
>>
>> I've got a problem.
>> Recently my backup exec 8.5 hasn't been working.
>> The reason for this is that the backup exec job engine service hangs in
a
>> pending state. "starting", if i look in administrative tools->services.
>> I've tried to restart the server with no luck. I've also tried to stop
all
>> the other backup services but they all reject to stop because they can't
>> end the job engine service.
>>
>> What happened before it started to hang:
>> Backup exec wouldn't start at all , displaying the message: another server
>> with the same serialnumber exists in the network. Since that server no
>longer
>> takes care of the backup i disabled all the backupexec services on that
>one.
>> After that I was allowed to start up backup exec.
>>
>> Has anyone the faintest idea of how to get around this?
>>
>>
>>
>
>