Dataservers and backupservers are normally installed as services on Windows environments. What steps did you take to create your dataserver and backupserver?
The messages indicate the dataserver cannot communicate with the backupserver. This can happen if one of the following situations exist:
- a backupserver has not been created/installed on the local machine
- the backupserver has not been defined within the dataserver (what does sp_helpserver show?)
- the backupserver is not running; have you verified the backupserver *service* is running? are there any messages in the backupserver's errorlog to indicate if/why it can't start up properly?
- the address of the backupserver is not configured (properly) in the sql.ini file; what are the entries from the sql.ini file for your dataserver and backupserver