SAS® Deployment Backup and Recovery tool might fail if some of the hosts in current deployment are not reachable using the SAS® Deployment Agent


The SAS Deployment Backup and Recovery tool might fail if some of the hosts in the current deployment are not reachable using the SAS Deployment Agent. As a result, one of the following errors might appear:

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sas-backup
          type:         backup
          status:       notStarted
          size:         0
          comment:      Default Config
          errorMessage: Some of the hosts in current deployment are not reachable using SAS Deployment Agent.
                        Can't proceed with backup. Unreachable host(s): [hostname.example.com]
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Error Message:    A problem occurred in executing a "Deployment Backup and Recovery" operation.

Operation Status: NOT_STARTED

Error message:    Some of the hosts in current deployment are not reachable using SAS Deployment Agent.
                  Can't proceed with backup. Unreachable host(s): [hostname.example.com]
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To resolve this, use the SAS Deployment Manager to start the SAS Deployment Agent on the unreachable host. For instructions, see Starting and Stopping the SAS Deployment Agent in Chapter 6 of SAS® 9.4 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide, Third Edition.