Backup Exec 2012 Retention Period and Job Deletion Issues

Question

Hi,I have a Backup Job in BE 2012 on SBS 2011 that has a data retention period of 4 daysWhen I try to increase this, the setting does not saveWe also have a number of old restore jobs and catalog jobs listed and when I try to delete these, they do disapear, but when I go back in, they hae returnedI don't care too much about the job deletion, but is there any way to resolve the issue with the backup retention, even if it is a registry, or SQL edit?The backup is otherwise working OK, so i'd rather not need to re-install&nbsp;* The server has been restarted&nbsp;Thanks,Stephen

steve-young · Answer

This more sounds like you have a Backup Exec Database issue based on your description.
It appears any setting in the BE GUI you try to "apply" does not commit.
I would suggest making sure you have latest Backup Exec updates applied for BE 2012. Review the installed updates section of Backup Exec 2012 and then compare to the article below:
How to get updates for Backup Exec - Service Pack, Hotfix, Patches and Device Drivershttps://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000036756
Try a repair on the Database:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000037017https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH145645
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If the above doesnt work then I would suggest uprading to Backup Exec 16 as BE 2012 EOSL was last year.&nbsp;&nbsp;https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000116356
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