I have been having a problem with the search service going down. I'm getting
persistent 6482 (Office SharePoint Server) and 10004 (Idera SharePoint Backup
Management Service) event id errors. I'm always able to fix it, but it seems to
be different each time. One time the Windows SharePoint Services Help Search had
stopped in CA. Starting it there fixed search. Then today restarting the Office
SharePoint Server Search in the services panel of the management console fixed.
I'd like to keep these errors from happening as search is one of the best
aspects of SharePoint!