What is the best way to backup 100 servers? Do you use 100 backup jobs or 1 backup job? Often there is a philosophical argument about which approach is better. With more jobs, the success statistics look better. A single job failure is only a 1% fa...
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...
BE 2012 is quite a radical break from earlier versions of BE and as such, you should do more preparations and testing before you install or upgrade to BE 2012. Otherwise, you may have a nasty surprise. The aim of this article is to point out the doc...
BE 2012 is server-centric and in most cases, you end up with at least one job per server. This means that it is more a chore to schedule your jobs. You can start all the jobs on or about the same time, but you would not be sure which job runs firs...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Often, there will be users who would complain that BE upset their carefully thought out tape naming scheme by using a tape not intended for that backup. For example, a daily backup job taking a tape from the weekly media set or Monday's backup data ...
Every now and then, there would be an aggrieved user who feels that he was not given the full measure by his tape. For example, for LTO3 tapes, the label on the box specifies 400GB and he is not getting anything close to this. To add to the confusi...
Présentation du WorkShopForum Technique: Symantec NetBackup et virtualisation en partenariat avec VMware qui a eu lieu le jeudi 1er juillet dans les locaux de Symantec. Speakers : * Laurent Delaisse - SrPreSalesManager Technical Specialist * Daniel...
DHCP & Print Server Backups Scenario: All servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2. Like most well run IT departments you have system images for servers. You probably have multiple sites, possibly with low bandwidth connections and you would lik...
Why? If you are using a tape library with a barcode reader, you should be using barcode labels. Why use barcode labels for your tapes? EFFICIENCY. The tape library can identify a tape from its barcode label without having to read the internal lab...
NDMP file level restoration using command line 1. It was after the chirstmas and newyear holiday's, when users found their data was missing. We dont know how the data went missing nor the user. 2. There were more than 10 users who lost their data, w...
Introduction With ever growing volumes of data in typical organizations and increasing scrutiny around management and retention of that data, companies are beginning to seek more cost-effective ways to scale their storage environments. In particula...
Introduction This paper describes Veritas NetBackup Bare Metal Restore (BMR), an option to NetBackup 6.0 that eliminates the need for disparate bare metal recovery methodologies and greatly improves the speed and simplicity of system recovery by pro...
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