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On the Windows taskbar, click Start > Run.
In the Open text field, type services.msc, and then click OK.
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Under the Name column, scroll through the list of services until you see
Symantec System Recovery (the name of the agent).
Its status should be Started.
See
About starting or stopping the Symantec System Recovery Agent service
on page 139.
See Starting or stopping the Symantec System Recovery Agent service
on page 140.
About starting or stopping the Symantec System Recovery Agent service
To start, stop, or restart the Symantec System Recovery Agent service, you must
be logged on as an administrator. (If your computer is connected to a network,
network policy settings might prevent you from completing these tasks.)
You might need to start, stop, or restart the Symantec System Recovery Agent
service for the following reasons:
You should start or restart the agent if Symantec System
Recovery is unable to connect to it on a computer. Or, you
cannot reconnect from Symantec System Recovery.
Start or Restart
You should restart the agent. This restart is necessary if
you changed the user name or password that you use to log
on to the agent service. You should also restart the agent
after you have used the Security Configuration Tool to give
additional users the ability to back up computers.
See
About controlling access to Symantec System Recovery
on page 142.
Restart
You can stop the agent if you believe that it causes a problem
on the computer, or if you want to temporarily free memory
resources.
If you stop the agent, you also prevent all of your drive-based
backups and file and folder backups from running.
Stop
If you stop the Symantec System Recovery Agent service and then start Symantec
System Recovery, the agent restarts automatically. The Status changes to Ready.
If you stop the Symantec System Recovery Agent service while the software runs,
you receive an error message. Symantec System Recovery is disconnected from
139Backing up remote computers from your computer
Best practices for using services