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GroupWise 8 backup and restore using BackupExec 2010
I have a GroupWise 8 deployment (relatively recently patched) on OES2/SLES10 (also relatively newly patched) GroupWise is running on NSS. The TSA is correctly configured on the Linux box. We are backing it up with a Windows Server 2008 based install of BE2010. The backup and restore run without error, but the restored files are sparse files. Symantec technical support barely has anyone that can even spell GroupWise. Is anyone out there backing up GroupWise with BE2010? If so, have you successfully tested a restore? This is a totally supported, albeit TOTALLY UNDOCUMENTED configuration on the Symtantec side. Anybody got any skin in this game they can share?165Views0likes0CommentsRe: Using RALUS to backup Open Enterprise Server - Differential backups
Thanks, first for the quick reply. A different flavor of the same question, posed thanks to your link: the "Preservechange time" option doesn't clearly state whether it should be on or off to enable differential backups. It's not even clear if it has any impact whatsoever, can I get a clarifcation on this one too?458Views0likes0CommentsRe: backup exec 2010 SQL transaction log truncate
"No, it's really not getting truncated BECAUSE there is no unused space in the tlog file after the backup." the issue, though appears to be with the actual database itself. the one database that's experiencing this is the VMware vCenter database. on further investigation, all the other "Full Recovery" model databases are getting their logs handled effectively by BE2010. I'm trying to escalate this through VMware support, but damn, their kinda a**holes. They keep pointing me at technotes and white papers to explain that the problem isn't theirs...911Views0likes0CommentsUsing RALUS to backup Open Enterprise Server - Differential backups
Running OES2 on SLES10SP2. Backup Exec 2010 R2. I have the TSA running in the OES environment. I have installed the RALUS agent and I can access [ROOT] and back it up. The data is in an NSS volume which resides at /media/nss/DATA. Full backups run well enough, no issues detected. Differential backups, though, are the same size as the full backup. It appears that the RALUS isn't resetting the Archive bit in the FULL backup job. Is there a setting I need to change? How do you effect a differential backup using RALUS?SolvedBE2010 RALUS - SLES, OES, and "Follow remote mount points"
Using RALUS/BE2010 to backup SLES10/OES2 servers. Have 'Follow remote mount points' disabled and 'Follow local mount points' enabled. I can't help but noticethat the RALUS is backing up remote NCP volumes mounted using'ncpmount' in spite of this. It's a relatively easy thing to work by just excluding the path used for the NCP mount point. Is this an oversite, or is Novell really dead? :)backup exec 2010 SQL transaction log truncate
Is anyone seeing a successful Tlog backup actully truncating the log when using BackupExec against a SQL 2008 Failover Cluster running on Windows Server 2008 R2? With databases that are set to the Full recovery model, the BE transaction log backup doesn't actually truncate the log. Here area few observations. 1 . The backup method is "Log - Backup transaction log". 2. Backup runs without error. SQL shows that the tlog has actually been backed up. 3. No, it's really not getting truncated BECAUSE there is no unused space in the tlog file after the backup. AND the TLOG continues to grow in spite of backup. I know that the TLOG file won't actually shrink because it gets truncated, but it shouldn't continue to grow. 4. A native Tlog backup with SQL DOES truncate the log. Immediately thereafter, there is substantial unused space in the file, shrinking the databse recovers that space, and the file size is reduced to a few MB. (This is the expected behavior.) 5. Tlog backup using BE on a standalone SQL instance DOES truncate the log successfully. This ain't my first rodeo. (Although I haven't done BE in a while...) It seems like this is a bug with SQL Clustering and BE 2010. Can anyone validate that it works ANYWHERE?