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n_lev
Level 3
4 months ago

Veritas Backup Exec Job Failures (network unstable)

Hi, Is there any way to improve reliability of backups on slow/unstable/wide networks? I have a Veritas BE in the cloud that pulls backups from multiple sites around the world and saves them to S3 ...
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Windows Server 2016
kf2013's avatar
kf2013
Moderator

What is type of source backup data?

n_lev's avatar
n_lev
Level 3
4 months ago

Hyper-V host (Windows 2016 Server) with 4 VM's on it (also all Windows 2016 Server)

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    kf2013
    Moderator
    4 months ago

    I think Backup Exec cannot rectify your network issue, because it may be caused by network equipment or broadband.

    You can split the job to few jobs or you can observe the time that network disonnect  to avoid.

    • n_lev's avatar
      n_lev
      Level 3
      4 months ago

      So there is nothing like "buffering" or "retry attempts" settings?

      • kf2013's avatar
        kf2013
        Moderator
        4 months ago

        No. You can go through all the settings in the job and the settings of backup exec.