Backup Exec 2012 Tutorials
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.
