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ANDREY_FYODOROV
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15 years ago
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Legacy registry settings and v 9.0

You know the legacy registry settings used in v 7 to put EV in read-only mode prior to back up.

I know there are better ways to put EV in backup mode now, with the powershell scripts et al.

 

But will the legacy settings still work?

 

(We have Backup Exec 12.5 with EV agent, and it keeps on adding the legacy registry settings before each backup job)

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  • GertjanA's avatar
    GertjanA
    15 years ago

    Hello Andrey,

    I did not know that. I'm not a BE expert ;-)

    Although you get the errors in the eventviewer about the registry keys, it will still work. You can check (if you want), by allowing a user a manual archiving, and then during backup (ie regkeys are r/o) try a manual archive. That will most likely sit 'pending' until r/o is cleared.

    One thing to consider is upgrading BE?

    Regards

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    GertjanA
    Moderator
    15 years ago

    Hello Andrey,

    The legacy keys will still work. However. You state: 'it keeps adding the legacy keys'.

    What you need to do is on the server that is showing this behaviour, is look for exactly which files are being called by the backup job.

    It might very well be that the backup-agent calls cmd or bat files that execute the registry file settings. I would search for them in the c-drive, possibly c:\backup_exec folder or something. The files MIGHT be called bpstart_post.cmd and bpstart_end.cmd, but they will have the commands to set the registry keys, and stop/start the services.

    If you cannot quickly find them, I would do a search on "*.reg" to find where the registry files are that set the registrykeys for EV.

    When you find them, locate the bat/cmd files and either change or delete them. I've seen BE12.5 and 2010R2 running with the EV-agent integration, and that is way easier, because it takes care of setting the store and acompanying indexes to read-only/normal at the proper times. It might be you use a local schedule, so investigate the task-scheduler also for jobs that do this.

  • ANDREY_FYODOROV's avatar
    ANDREY_FYODOROV
    Level 6
    15 years ago

    Actually BackupExec 12.5 with EV agent adds the keys on its own logic (no pre-backup or post-backup commands are configured), and then restarts EV services.

    Then after the backup job is finished, it uses its own logic to remove the keys and restart EV services to go into normal mode.

    I don't think BE 12.5 is smart enough to know how to put an EV 8.0/9.0 server into read-only mode properly.

    So I was just wondering, since BE 12.5 still uses the registry entries, whether EV is safe to be backed up like that.

  • GertjanA's avatar
    GertjanA
    Moderator
    15 years ago

    Hello Andrey,

    I did not know that. I'm not a BE expert ;-)

    Although you get the errors in the eventviewer about the registry keys, it will still work. You can check (if you want), by allowing a user a manual archiving, and then during backup (ie regkeys are r/o) try a manual archive. That will most likely sit 'pending' until r/o is cleared.

    One thing to consider is upgrading BE?

    Regards

  • ANDREY_FYODOROV's avatar
    ANDREY_FYODOROV
    Level 6
    15 years ago

    Yep, BE upgrade is sure to be next, but that's completely out of my hands. A different department runs BE servers.