Agent for Microsoft SQL Server

The following section provides information about installation prerequisites, configurations, and issues to consider before installing the Agent for Microsoft SQL Server.

• In cluster environments, you may receive a Lost Connection error while installing the Agent for Microsoft SQL Server. This occurs in primary and standalone installations when you select the cluster SQL as the Arcserve Backup database. To avoid this error, copy the SQL Agent for Arcserve Backup database package to each cluster node and run the setup manually.
• To protect SQL Server instances in a cluster-aware environment, you must manually install the Agent for Microsoft SQL Server on all the nodes in the cluster-aware environment.
• When installing the SQL Agent for the Arcserve Backup database on other nodes in a cluster-aware environment, you must run SQLAgentRmtInst.exe and DBAConfig.exe after installation to input the correct cluster node name and password so that the Setup process can create Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC) communication.
• When you select Windows Authentication for SQL Server, Arcserve Backup does not require security information for SQL Server backup.