Hello,
MS SQL 2000 was supported in Data Protector v. 7.x but not for Data Protector v. 8.x/9.x
If you run MS SQL 2000 backup integrated on unsupported environment you can get the following error :
Critical] From: OB2BAR_SQLBAR@hostname "(DEFAULT)" Time: 16/5/2016 10:52:00
OB2BAR_SQLBAR: FormatMessage() failed with 1813, message #8 in set 9004
Looking on debug log you can see the following :
2016-05-13 16:15:07.884 OB2BAR_SQLBAR.216.256 ["/integ/sql_7/sql7_common.cpp $Rev: 51165 $ $Date:: 2015-12-22 03:42:48 ":3850] A.09.00 b107
[SQL_GetSQLServerVersion] Version number smaller than 2000. Version: 8.0
cmd:sql_bar.exe
Function trace (currentLevel=0):
Level 0: SQL_GetSQLServerVersion()