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Jaylla_
Copper Contributor
Jul 04, 2023

Microsoft Azure Backup Server

I am trying to configure MABS on an on-prem server but I seem to get stuck at the end of the whole process.

 

 

1. I do not have a DPM server installed.

2. The MICROSOFT$DPM$Acct has been added to all admin groups as well as the admin groups in the SQL.

3. I used the NETBIOS during the SQL server name configuration.

 

Can someone help please?

  • LainRobertson's avatar
    LainRobertson
    Silver Contributor
    Jul 09, 2023

    Jaylla_ 

     

    That error is too high-level. You'd be better off checking:

     

    1. The DPM installation log (for which a hyperlink is at the bottom of your screenshot);
    2. The SQL Server error logs, via SQL Server Management Studio.

     

    As an aside, MABS uses DPM under the hood, so you are indeed running DPM - just under the branding of MABS. But this isn't important.

     

    There should not be any network issues as the SQL Server instance has to be local - regardless of whether you've selected a new or existing instance on the SQL Settings screen.

     

    However, if you selected "existing SQL server instance" then you need to ensure that it was installed as a named instance, as per step 3 in the installation guide.

     

    If you installed SQL Server in the usual manner of "next, next, finish" then it won't be a named instance, which could be one reason you're seeing the SQL Server high-level failure.

     

     

    You can check quickly via PowerShell if you've installed only the default instance using the following command:

     

    (Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\" -Name "InstalledInstances").InstalledInstances

     

    If you only get back one value named "MSSQLSERVER" then you only have the default instance, which is not considered a named instance.

     

    There's a lot of other things to check in that installation guide - many of the relevant ones under point 3.

     

    Have another read and see if you haven't missed some, or actioned some incorrectly.

     

    Cheers,

    Lain

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