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It seems you need to restart the backup server after you add new unix
hosts. I added some hosts at the start of the week and after that all the
backups started failing with

"The connection to the data backup has been lost"

This happened for both existing (and working unix agents) and the new ones
I defined.

It took a little while to figure this out. At first I thought it might be
firewall related but looking at the network traffic showed that wasn't the
case. The debug output of agent.be (see agent.be -help) wasn't all that
useful and seemed to indicate normal operation.

The tape backup unit has been in a funk (flashing orange) for a while now (mid-Oct). The system just didn't want to get over a timed out command. Have spent some time on it now and then since Friday, reseting this and checking that. It finally started to work again now after a successful inventory and powercycle of the host.

I checked status of tape unit and inventory check went ok, still the backup app reported unit in paused state and showed drives not responding. Powercycled windows box and backup restarted.

It seems to be running ok now without drive errors.

I also enabled web interface on the tape unit.