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Michael_Rydzews's avatar
10 years ago

Backup Exec 2014 and Symantec Enterprise Vault 10 server backup

Hi, I have installed Backup Exec 2014 with SP1 on a Windows 2008R2 server that hosts Symantec Enterprise Vault 10.0.4. In Backup Exec, I see 'two' servers listed, the Windows server itself (drives...
  • Sym-cr's avatar
    10 years ago

    Hi Michael,

    As far as I understood your environment, you have installed Backup Exec 2014 and EV 10.0.4 on the same Win 2008 R2 server. - Not a good idea. It is always suggested to have Backup Application on a seperate server, so that in case of  BE server crash you will have your EV running and in case of EV crash you can restore EV using other server where your BE is installed.

    However, in BE 2014 we can create a multi server backup job, where we can add more than one server in a single backup job. Hence, as you mentioned that BE console has two servers listed, you can try to add both the servers in a single backup job. Backup the Vault Site, Vault SQL DBs, and Vault Index locations only from the directory server and avoid backing files related to these directly from their physical locations.

    For further reference: 
    Best practices for Backup Exec 2014 Agent for Enterprise Vault and the Backup Exec Migrator

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO74440

     

    Thanks!!