Backup Exec 2012 Tutorials
Hello Guys,
I am new to BE. Can someone help point to a step by step tutorial / link to set up BE and backup jobs on the following platform.
1. HP server DL320 G6 with 7 drives ( 2x600GB for RAID 1 Mirror OS / BE and 5x600GB RAID5 for Backups). Windows 2012.
2. A tape drive attached to this server LTO-4 for duplication of the backups from the disk over to tape.
3. I need to backup 12 VMs on Hyper-V cluster again on 2 DL machines. I understand that at this time, I cannot have VMs running on 2012R2 to be able to backed up, but the VMs running on 2008/2012 are all there now (to be upgarded to 2012R2 in few months).
4. The plan is that I should be able to do initially full back up (total size is about 1TB at this time) on RAID5 ( disk, dedup) and then every friday night full backup, overwriting the previous full backup.
5. I will need to setup incremental backup for saturday thru thursday nights on the RAID 1 OS disk itself.
6. There is a 4TB of NAS attached the BE server. I should be able to take full back up plus next day incremental and create a synthetic full backup from the previous full backup (on RAID 5 set) and next day incremental (on RAID 1 set) and then write it to USB drive.
7. And finally, I need to duplicate the full and incremental backups over to the tape drive.
I am sure this is all simple, but I will appreciate if someone can validate these assumptions and advise if possible step by step on how to create these jobs.
And any update from folks who are doing BE2014 beta evaluation if this is good to be become general release in next two months and until then how do you backup a VM that is running on windows 2012R2?
Thanks and God bless you all.
Hi dpsguard,
Currently Backup Exec 2012 SP4 does not support WIndows Server 2012 as media server OS.
Kindly see this link: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH175581
If the tape device is installed and connected to the BE server it will be automatically detected and configured in Backup Exec once it is installed.
Please refer to this link below: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO73419
Yes you can create a FUll backup job and incremental based from your sched, but please do bear in mind that we can only have 1 Deduplication Disk Storage for a media server, in line with this your setup would be a Dedup storage on the RAID 5 disk and a Backup to Disk on the RAID1 disk.
About synthetic backups, kindly see this link: www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO73675
About configuring duplicate backup jobs, kindly see this link: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH187265
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
There are some videos in the Video section which you might want to take a look. Beyond that, a good place to start is the Admin Guide which can be found here
http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5211
What you are trying to do is possible. Note that synthetic backups are only available to files/folders on Windows systems, it would be not be available for VM backups.
If you have difficulties, you might want to engage a Symantec partner to help you set them up. Also, you should consult a Symantec reseller on your licencing requirements.
1. Yes.
2. Yes. As for the upgrade process, you got to wait for BE 2014 to be released.
3. An upgrade should preserve jobs.
4. To understand dedup, do read the Deduplication chapter in the Admin Guide.
5. It is scheduled to be released in the middle of the year.
6. You cannot backup Hyper-V 2012R2 host with BE 2012, but you should be able to do so with BE 2014. As for problems with BE 2014, you got to wait until it is released.
If you are on a current maintenance contract then the upgrade would be free.