Quick Start Manual

Provide a user name, password, and domain for an Administrator account

that the Backup Exec system services can use, and then click Next.

See “About the Backup Exec service account” on page 6.

On the Choose SQL Server panel, do one of the following to select a location

to store the Backup Exec Database .

The Choose SQL Server panel does not appear for upgrades. You cannot

change the database location during the upgrade process. If you want to

change the database location after the upgrade, use BE Utility.

Do the following in the order listed:

■ Click Create a local Backup Exec SQL Express

instance to store the database on.

■ To change the location of the Backup Exec SQL

Express instance, click Browse.

■ Select the location, and then click OK.

To create a local Backup Exec

SQL Express instance

Do the following in the order listed:

■ Click Use an existing instance of SQL Server

2005 (SP3a or later) or SQL Server 2008 on the

network to store the database on.

■ Select the instance.

When Backup Exec is installed into an existing

instance, the automated master database restore

feature is not available. To recover the Master

database, replace it with the Master database copy

that Backup Exec automatically creates and

updates when the Master database is backed up.

Caution: During the installation process and

upgrade process, Backup Exec stops and starts the

SQL service several times. Other user-created

databases that use the SQL Server instance are

unavailable during the process. To avoid such

conflicts, you should install Backup Exec into its

own SQL instance.

To use an existing SQL Server

2005 or SQL Server 2008 instance

Click Next.

Backup Exec attempts to connect to the instance.

If the Symantec Backup Exec Database panel appears, perform the following

steps to identify the location of the SQL Express SP3 setup file:

■ Click Browse.

Installing Backup Exec

Installing Backup Exec to a local computer