This article applies to Backup Administrators working on Backup Exec 2012, 2014 or the latest BE 15 with latest patches applied. Every Backup Administrator struggles with this question of Storage Management at some point. Even though disks have beco...
In Part 1, https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/deduplication-simplified-part-1-backup I have discussed what happened when you back up to a dedup folder/OST appliance. After our series of backups, the dedup store looks like this abcd...
Deduplication, or dedup for short, is very common nowadays. BE has a dedup option since BE 2010. Microsoft now offers dedup'ed volumes with Server 2012 R2. There are a lot of dedup appliance from various vendors. How does dedup actually works? I...
It has been quite some time since Backup Exec 2012 has been launched but there is one option which was not discussed or highlighted in any documentation, i.e. ‘Make This a Required Selection’ This option is available when we right click on any backu...
Understanding Compression in Backup Exec: An explanation of Hardware and Software compression used with Backup Exec How does compression work? It can be better explained with an example. Consider a text file (.txt) with its content as “aaaabb...
Hi Connect, It has been in discussion since long, which would be best for environment. Choice between legends have been concern of corporates. Attached are comparison sheet for Backup exec and NetBackup. Have outlined feature sets which i've work...
V-79-57344-33967 - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "Search instance\Search-DB 1 (Sharepoint\WSS_Search_Sharepoint)". Snapshot technology used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Snapshot technology error (0xE00084AF): The dir...
HI, Just thought I'd share some recent experiences with Backup Exec 2012 SP2 & Hyper-V 2012. I have been using Backup Exec since the Veritas days, am a VMware VCP and worked for Microsoft for many years as a 3rd level tech. This article is specifial...
Here you can download the Backup Exec Partner Toolkit along with supporting documentation. If you experience any trouble downloading any of the content below, please contact the Backup Exec Partner Toolkit team at: DL-SYMC-BRTools@Symantec.com. Than...
Hallo! Wir sind gerade dabei einen Windows Server 2012 Std. in Betrieb zu nehmen. Bisher haben wir eine ältere Version von BE zur Sicherung im Einsatz und wollten nun auf die Version 2012 wechseln. Dabei mussten wir feststellen, das scheinbar keine U...
Often when setting up a backup schedule, you do not want a backup to run when another is running. For example, if you have a weekly and a daily backup, you do not want the daily backup to run on the day when the weekly backup is running. For BE 2012...
In order to ensure what version of RALUS (remote agent for linux servers) is currently installed on Linux server run the following command: cat /var/VRTSralus/ralus.ver The result of the command will show the RALUS version in the first line in the ...
Hi All, After installing a trial version of Symantec backup exec, it failed to connect to local server with error "TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it". I searched around and could not find...
Scenario: I want to run my SQL log backup or increment backup job on the hour every x hour between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. during the week-days. Solution: Earlier I have writtten an article on how to solve this problem https://www-secure.symantec.com/c...
If your SQL database is set to Full Recovery Mode, it maintains transaction logs. If these logs are not truncated from time to time, they will grow and eventually fill up your disk. BE will warn you that you need to truncate your log. V-79-40960-...
Greetings one and all! I am here to offer up a new White Paper Symantec commissioned from ESG comparing single backup solutions vs mutliple solutions to handle virtual environments. From the intro: In early 2012, ESG’s annual spending intentions su...
Recently, Symantec commissioned 451 Research to take a good hard look at Backup Exec's philosophy of and strategy toward protecting heterogenous environments. From the intro: The 451 Take Though VM-specific vendors have made a mark in the backup a...
LOG Locations in Backup Exec: Backup Exec Support Log (SymHelp): Default Directory: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec Filename: <Servername>__<Date>__<Time>.sdbz Usage: Symantec Help (SymHelp) is a utility designed to quickly and efficiently di...
CATALOGS: When cataloging a tape, Backup Exec reads the header information from the tape and stores it in a file on the hard drive. The information contained in the catalog includes, but is not limited to: •Tape number/label/name (something to iden...
The following table shows the hotfixes which were released for Backup Exec 2012 version. All the hotfixes in Italic are not anymore available through LiveUpdate, because they were replaced by further Service Packs. Hotfix number Rele...
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