Technical White Papers are designed to introduce Symantec partners and end users to key technologies and technical concepts that are associated with the Symantec Backup and Recovery product family. The information within a Technical White Paper will ...
At the recently concluded Vision 2014, I had the opportunity to attend a hands-on lab session, Optimising Backup Exec 2014. This lab highlights 4 tunable areas which can have an impact on the performance of your jobs. We may come across these areas...
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...
I have a Symantec BackUp Exec system running on a server right next to my ReadyNAS NV+ server. I want to back up the ReadyNAS as I do regular backups of my other servers. But when i try and run a test, an error message occours and the test can not pr...
AD (Active Directory) is part of the system state of a DC (domain controller). When you back up the system state of a DC, the AD also gets backed up. The BESA needs to be a domain admin in order to backup the system state of a DC because of AD. M...
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...
Backup Exec 2012 Hyper V /VMware Application GRT demystified. Before we move ahead to understand how Virtual Application GRT works, let me give a short description on How application GRT Works. In general when an application (exchange, AD, SharePoi...
Folks, Got this documents from Netbackup Forum 2013, very helpful
It’s been a while since I last wrote an article, and almost a year since I wrote the first part of what was going to be a 2-part introduction to Backup Exec for newbies. Now’s as good a time as any to write it… To recap, read the first part on the li...
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...
Please find how to perform backups with Synology Storage in the attached documents.
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 ...
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...
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