We recently upgraded one of our server 2003 computers to server 2008 (We'll call this server UPGRADE). Once we did the backup server (we'll call this server BACKUP) was unable to authenticate to the server.
Due to our restraints, we cannot have a AD account for backups, so we're using local admin accounts (UPGRADE\backupadmin).
So I removed the entry from BACKUP's backup exec server and I uninstalled the agent from UPGRADE. I reinstalled the agent locally to UPGRADE and manually added BACKUP to the trust. After doing so, UPGRADE appeared in the server list of BACKUP.
I then removed the old UPGRADE\backupadmin account and readded it with:
Act as part of the operating system
Administrators
Backup Operators
Log on as a batch job
Logon as a service
Users
I then readded UPGRADE\backupadmin configuration and settings -> logon accounts with the following:
User name: UPGRADE\backupadmin
Password: ********
Confirm Password: ********
Account name: UPGRADE\backupadmin
unchecked "This is a restricted logon account (because I'm not the only administrator to these backups)
unchecked "This is my default account" (because all of our servers use different logins)
I then go to UPGRADE, right-click, and select Backup -> Backup to dedupe disk
First thing that pops up is "Select a logon account to use when connecting to resource 'UPGRADE'
I choose UPGRADE\backupadmin
That brings up a "Browse Failure" window with some information.
I've confirmed that the password is correct (I've reset it multiple times) and the UPGRADE has been rebooted several times through out this process. I'm at a loss here.