After Upgrade to BE2012: Question regarding backing up several servers.

[Monster]

I upgraded to BE2012. My first impression was: Oh dog, it's horribly slow and I have to click thousand times more and I miss an overall view of reports.

Anyway, I must backup 10 servers and before I had one Job that backed up server by server to disk and did a copy2tape job afterwards. I was able to change the sequence the servers got backed up.

Now I have 10 servers and 10 jobs that all start at the same time. What's the best practise to backup 10 servers (B2D, then Copy2Tape) in a custom order without idle time between the jobs?

[pkh · Accepted solution]

You can read my articles

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/managing-many-jobs

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/managing-duplicate-tape-jobs

This document may also be helpful

How to back up multiple servers to a single series of tapes in Backup Exec 2012

[AmolB]

 it's horribly slow and I have to click thousand times more 

Above issue will be addressed in the next release of BE202, refer to below thread

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/new-be-2012-requires-too-many-clicks

For multiple backups in a single job issue,  refer to below thread

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/ability-bundle-multiple-servers-single-job