I have been testing out Data Protection Manager 2007 as a replacement to Symantec (Veritas) Backup Exec

I came accross a wierd error. I had two servers that have teaming enabled, but one of the team member adaptors are disconnected (physically) this was causing DPM Agent to fail to connect to the DPM server, It seems that Qos is not working under a failed team? I need to check that out.

Error (one of them)

A DPM agent failed to communicate with the DPM service on xxxx.yyyy.com because of a communication error. Make sure that xxxx.yyyy.com is remotely accessible from the computer running the DPM agent. If a firewall is enabled on xxxx.yyyyy.com, make sure that it is not blocking requests from the computer running the DPM agent (Error code: 0x800706ba, full name: xxxx.yyyy.com).

So if you are getting strange connectivity errors, or failed jobs for no other reason.. Check your teams/qos and general network.

Good luck