I joined my current company with a view of migrating their backup solution from Legato to Symantec Netbackup. While I looked forward to new challenges and meeting new people, I was not amused to find no “documentation” on “how to” migrate from Legato...
A new firmware is released for your Enterprise Backup environment tape library hardware. After reading the release notes, proceed to update the code on the library. This exact same procedure can be applied to updating the firmware on your tape dr...
Hi All, This is one of the problem I had faced on NetBackup 6.5.3. Problem is mentioned below Problem - schedule jobs are not running automatically, manual is working fine Solution - This problem is due to scheduler file problem. We have to recre...
This story is of a customer in the telecom industry where I was part of the backup administrator group. The moment the Indian service provider got into business,. Technology was key for the organization to be able to compete in the market with other ...
My DLO experience As a SAS70 certified consulting company our data and the security of that data is extremely important to our clients and the company. All data deemed critical is backed up using Backup Exec for Window 12.5. However a weak point in...
“Symantec has a lot of neat stuff, bare metal restore, de-dupe, encryption. Now there's nothing they can't do. Point solutions from other vendors have been chinking Symantec's armour. But by integrating all these different technologies, it's creating...
Customer Environment: The is the information of the company that I worked which had a global business and IT consulting firm supporting more than 200+ active customers and technical employee base of more than 700+. It had customer base spread across...
Hi all, This just came into my possession today - thought it might be useful to those of you who use the Backup Exec EV Agent to protect EV8 - or for those who are looking at doing it. John
Leveraging disk as the primary backup destination allows concurrent backups and restores at the speed of disk. You can reduce your backup window by leveraging disk, stage data to disk and then to tape for concurrent fast backups, or create a duplica...
Hello Again! I am working on one very interesting feature of NTFS file system from last 6 months and I can tell you it’s really very interesting. Yes, I am talking about alternate data streams (ADS). In this article, I will refer them mostly as ADS. ...
Our work environment consists of multiple domains, with all the sites running Backup Exec 12.5. Normally we’d have to have licenses for 2 CASO servers (1 in each of our site domains). However, it is possible to manage a server in another domain using...
Two commonly used features of Backup Exec are Inventory and Catalog. Inventory is generally used when you physically change tapes in your tape drive or library and you'd like to inform Backup Exec of the change. Without performing an inventory, ...
I started my job as an ICT Technician (Which basically is Helpdesk/System Administrator) at a Catholic College in Australia in February 2008. At that stage the Computers let alone the Network infrastructure left much to be desired. Let me just say mo...
Recently I stepped into my new career as VERITAS Netbackup administrator; I am remembering the days spend at Doors (My Previous Origination). That was a smaller setup with 20 Servers and 150 more desktops. Developers save their project related data’s...
The story is way back 2004, to give background customer a banking one which had 322 branches with 3 datacenter spread across India. There were 200+ servers spread across and one of the major tasks was to ensure the data is safeguard for all the bank...
This article is about “how Hosts file playing a main role in Netbackup Environment” Here is something about Hosts file from "Wikipedia" What is Host File? The hosts file is a computer file used to store information on where to find a node on a comp...
To give the background, customer with 3000+ clients with close to 6000+ jobs running on backup window was a complex setup, with D2D implementation in place. Having said, that the management with no centralized management thus depend upon the client f...
Often times when we are trying to restore extremely old data in Backup Exec we encounter all sorts of problems. The causes can vary from a corrupt database or catalogs to media label conflicts within the catalog. Common symptoms are continuously fa...
Here's the story in short: In the beginning of my project and IT career we were using TS* data protection software. However, I didn’t get much chance to troubleshoot this system, as I was rookie at that time only doing some reporting stuff for data ...
In some cases, frontline technical support encounters an issue it just doesn’t have the resources to solve. In a recent case, a large, multinational electronics manufacturing customer called in with NetBackup problems. A number of its backup processe...
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