Introduction Using Backup Exec to backup virtual environments that use Hyper-V 2 (Windows Server 2008 R2) as hypervisor may be not as simple as it first looks. In this paper I want to cover some of the reasons why partners and customers struggle gett...
Fonctionnement de la sauvegarde de déduplication Backup Exec Travaux: les travaux de déduplication en divisant les données en segments 128K, puis stocker les segments dans un dossier de stockage de déduplication, avec une base de données qui permet d...
I hope this will help out other users and also the Symantec tech support team: I would like to preface this by saying that I have been working on trying to get BE2012 installed on my system since it came out. I waited for SP1 with abated breath hop...
If you’re new to backups, or even Backup Exec, working out how everything works, gets installed and configured, and fits together, can be a very daunting place to be. I started out the same as any other newcomer to backups, and the skills ramp-up was...
I want to restore individual files/folders from my VM backup, but when I expand the machine, I don't see the individual files/folders. This scenario is often encountered by users and you got to check two things. 1) The file GRT is enabled in the VM b...
Troubleshooting email notifications has been a mysterious task for a lot of Backup Exec users. Many of us wonder how/where to start troubleshooting email notifications. Once email notifications are configured in Backup Exec and enabled in Job proper...
External hardisks, whether they are USB or eSata, are increasingly used as backup media, in place of tapes. If you are using more than one external harddisks, you would want to set them up so that there are minimal adminstration after the initial se...
In order to change the language of the interface, please follow the steps: 1. Open Backup Exec console 2. Click on Backup Exec icon (top-left) and select Installation and Licensing > Install Options and Licenses on this Backup Exec Server 3. In "Ad...
This article is a follow-up to this article https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-use-barcode-labels-prevent-accidental-readwrite-wrong-type-tapes If you are using BE 2012, you would find that you are no longer able to set barcode ...
When you run BEMCLI cmdlets, you can direct the results to a file on disk, e.g. Get-BEJobHistory > \jobhistory.txt This is useful when you schedule a script or the script is a long running one. For example, when you chain your jobs and want to see t...
Backup Exec has a number of enterprise-type add-ons that can be used in a variety of ways. ADBO, CASO and SAN SSO can all be utilised to run more efficient backups, monitoring or management within a large-scale environment in which Backup Exec is dep...
In BE 2012, when you use fixed disk, the storage that would be created is called Disk Storage. When you store a backup set in a Disk Storage, you can specify the retention period for the backup set. The management of this backup set is done through...
When backups are done to tapes, it is normal to maximise the use of the tape space and thus minimising the number of tape used. To achieve this objective, the following have to be in-place 1) The first job that writes to the tape overwrites it and t...
If you are using the full backup + incremental backup scheme to backup your folder/server and you restore your full backup + incremental backups, you will find that your resultant folder/server will contain all the files that has been previously dele...
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: BE 2010 or earlier With BE 2010 or earlier versions of BE, this can be done with a combination of the...
Groups (server groups) is a new feature in Backup Exec 2012. The functionality of this feature is often misunderstood by many. Some people think this is a way to create 'One job for multiple servers' while some think this feature allows to perform ...
Here is some information on Backup Exec 2012 Licensing that I thought would be helpful to the community along with a whitepaper Backup Exec 2012 Licensing - Getting Started Symantec Backup Exec 2012 Licensing Guide (attached) ~Eileen
There are a fair amount of forum topics that have been raised over the past couple of months around backing up to a NAS using Backup Exec. While it might be a viable option, and in most cases cheaper to tape (it also gives you the backup-to-disk abil...
Suppose you need to restore data from a defunct server, i.e. a server which does not exist in the BE 2012 media server. How do you do so? BE 2012 is server-centric, so the procedure is slightly different from that for the previous versions of BE. Cu...
The new command-line interface to BE 2012 is based on Powershell which is a rich scripting language. It has the ability to pass objects from one cmdlet to another. This ability can speed up some tasks. BEMCLI is also easier to use than its predese...
