One of the changes that BE 2012 has brought about is the change in the BE commandline interface from BEMCMD to BEMCLI. BEMCLI is based on Powershell which is a more powerful scripting language than the DOS commands. Needless to say, to fully exploi...
Hello All, You may observe that you are not able to delete backup jobs in Backup Exec 2012. As shown in the screenshot below the DELETE option will be shown and grayed out. This is due to the fact that the view that is selected on top is LIST view ...
From BE 2010 R2 onwards, BE can span disk. When you span disk, it means that you can backup to a B2D folder on one disk and when it gets full, BE will automatically continue the backup on the B2D folder on another disk. You do not have to use USB d...
Suppose you have a tape library with a LTO4 tape drive and a LTO5 tape drive and you have both LTO4 and LTO5 tapes in the library. As you are aware, LTO4 tape drive cannot read/write LTO5 tapes. How do you tell BE not to put a LTO5 tape into the L...
Planning for an installation of Backup Exec should be undertaken with all of the same preparation as installing any other software. On a number of occassions, I've seen users post that Backup Exec isn't working for a variety of reasons: slow backups,...
When you click on the Media tab and then click on a tape media, you will see a screen which looks like this Let's look at some of the more interesting information and what you should do with them. Creation Date (first column) - This is the date th...
Question: Why is my job not appending data to my tapes? Answer: There are a couple of reasons why jobs do not append data to tapes. 1) The job is set to overwrite. To append data to tapes, the job must be set to either of the two append option...
Many times if we want to make two copies of same backup set then we have to fully depend on the Duplicate backups which backs up the data from the first media to second. The main problem in this is that Duplicate job will start only after the Full i...
Note: This restore procedure requires a good GRT based backup, completed using Backup Exec Exchange agent. 1)- Create a new restore job and select user, inbox or mails that you need to restore. 2)- Go to Microsoft Exchange Re-dire...
Backup Exec 2010 R3 Hot Fix #167791 Tech Note: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH167791 Affected Versions: Backup Exec 2010 R3 revision 5204 32bit Media Servers Backup Exec 2010 R3 revision 5204 x64bit Media Serv...
This article is mainly aimed at users who are new to backups and hardware, and have no experience in troubleshooting issues with backups. There are a number of steps to follow, and these are the more common issues that are experienced when hardware i...
For many years, tape was the only way to do backups. To do them fast, fairly reliably, and to allow for offsite storage of data to cater for DR-type situations. Even with the release and improvement of USB drives, tape still had a speed advantage ove...
Symantec, like any other software manufacturer, regularily releases enhancements, patches, software hotfixes and service packs for Backup Exec. While they'll probably recommend they be installed, how should you, and WHEN should you install them? Ther...
Symantec Backup Exec 2010 provides the facility to save and maintain multiple logon accounts. These logon accounts are used when performing various operations in the Backup Exec interface. Logon accounts are used for the following: Internal applicati...
I've seen a number of forum topics where guys have been struggling with their Backup Exec installations, and some advice given has been to upgrade to a new version. This is either met with instant acceptance, and a lot of further questions of where t...
With the cost of hard-disk dropping and capacity increasing, more and more installations are using them to store their backups, in place of the traditional tapes. Inevitably, users will ask: How do you to set up a scheme to rotate these external ha...
In this article we will see the procedure to restore Exchange 2010 database to the Recovery Database using Backup Exec 2010. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 introduces new technologies and features in many areas, and removes other important storage fe...
Backup Exec provides the ability to encrypt data, which helps us in protecting data from unauthorized access. Backup Exec provide the Software Encryption, but it also supports some devices that provide Hardware Encryption with the T10 standard. Backu...
Well, I wrote an article a while back when I had started to think about disaster recovery, and had intended to follow it up shortly after. Work pressures and other things made sure I wasn't able to pursue the DR process. You can read up on the first ...
Trawling through the Backup Exec forums sees a number of postings regarding whether or not it is worth using the agents that BE has at its disposal. It’s interesting seeing the responses, with 2 sides arguing for, or against the use of agents. In lig...
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