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MaxwellMW's avatar
MaxwellMW
Level 2
24 days ago

Best and affordable online storage for BE 24

Hello everyone. I don't have a ton of experience with backups in general, but I am helping a client get setup to back up their server to a cloud container using BE 24. The software itself is configured, and I did create an account with an online storage provider (backblaze b2), but I have been having an issue with getting the account to login (error E00099B3F). Veritas support showed that it may be an expired certificate of authority. I haven't had the best experience with the BB support, which leads me to the actual question. Does anyone have any recommendations on who to use for cloud storage specifically for BE? The server specs that are to be backed up is 200GB boot and 2 TB storage, so not a lot of storage space would be needed I wouldn't think. I would like to configure it to do an incremental backup nightly. I'm not even sure of how to price that out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  • MaxwellMW's avatar
    MaxwellMW
    Level 2
    24 days ago

    I will double check the patches. I began working on this in November and then ran into the issue with the CAs, so it is possible that there have been some updates since then.

    The part of the solution that I was hoping to avoid in the future is having to redo the CAs every time there is an update as per that article : "** NOTE ** An upgrade of the Backup Exec will revert any changes made to the cacert.pem file. The steps will need to be done again when BE is upgraded or updated." 

    Will I run into these same issues with other vendors except for AWS or Azure? That was what my thought was in asking about other vendors. Again, thanks for the help. I am truly grateful.

    • Lothar_Müller's avatar
      Lothar_Müller
      Level 5
      24 days ago

      I think, this will not happen so often if the Provider is in the HCL.
      Arctera should monitor and patch the PEM if the povider anounces a change. Hopefully they will do so, to get the changed PEM through QA process fast enough.
      But the cloud is very dynamic in this time, due the actual security situation globaly.
      So smaller local providers would be a little higher risk to be forgotten.

      Perhaps an additional backup copy of the former and the working PEM would help in case of change through an update/upgrade.