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How to deploy Backup Exec via the AWS Marketplace

How to deploy Veritas Backup Exec on AWS Marketplace.Veritas Backup Exec provides simple, rapid, and secure offsite backup to AWS for your in-house virtual and physical environments and protects cloud-based workloads in AWS. Veritas Backup Exec helps...

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How to deploy Backup Exec via the Azure Marketplace

How to deploy Veritas Backup Exec on Azure Marketplace.Veritas Backup Exec provides simple, rapid, and secure offsite backup to Azure for your on-premises environments and protects cloud-based workloads in Azure. Veritas Backup Exec helps customers r...

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Useful links for Upgrading Backup Exec

At its most basic, the upgrade procedure for Backup Exec is simply running installation media for the most recent version on an existing Backup Exec server. Backup Exec 15, 16 and 20 can be upgraded to Backup Exec 21 with this method. Article 1000443...

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rdmchugh by Level 1
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Resolved! Hyper-V Trial with Existing Backup Exec 16 Server

Already have Backup Exec 16 with agents for Windows & Apps/Databases running (for years). Want to install Hyper-V agent on a test host in trial mode - licensing wizard doesn't seem to offer trial version of Hyper-V agent on a push install. Is this po...

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Resolved! Recommendation on VM Backups

I'm looking to see if there is a better way for me to accomplish what I want done with my backup jobs (I admit I am far from a Backup Exec Power User). We are running the new 20.1 version (just upgraded from 2014).Our current setup utilizes one backu...

VSS Snapshot error

Hi Guys, Kindly please assistI am currently facing this issue for the past 3 weeks now. VSS Snapshot error. Out of disk space, or could not find an NTFS volume while creating the snapshot. Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) requires an NTFS v...

Resolved! Decommissioning BE 2010 R3

Hello, I need help please.I have purchased BE16 and set it up on my new 2012 R2 Hypervisor that is hosting 2 VMs. All buckups to USB drivesare running fine.I have also two older servers that have BE 2010 R3 on them installed and USB drives with backu...

Catalog of tapes from netbackup software fails

We are using Symantec Backupexec 2012. I get the following error when I do "Inventory & catalog" option to catalog a backup tape that came from netbackup software:-Job ended: Tuesday, 10 April 2018 at 2:53:42 PM Completed status: Failed Final error: ...

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MS SQL backup and LOG files

Hi,I'm new to backup, please be patience thanks. At work I just got the responsibilities for the backup files and MSSQL server, my question about MS SQL backup. We have a job for MS SQL backup, full and differential, this backup include the log?sorry...

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Dinamic selection for virtual machines in Vmware

Hi guys,I´m having problems with vmware policies, in my enviroment I have almost 80 virtual machines and 4 hosts so we decided to create 10 vmware policies (8 selected virtual machies per policy), the problem is when one VM is moved to another host b...

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Resolved! Backup Exec 16 SDR problem

Hello,I have recently installed BE16 and configured backup jobs.  The backups are working well.  I am backing up to a NAS device.I tried testing SDR by creating bootable media, booting from that media and selecting full system restore.  When prompted...

LTO5 media, when to retire?

Curious as to what others are doing with older LTO5 media.  We have many taopes that are getting high on "total hours of use" according to the "Details" section within BUE16.  By high, I mean over 300 hours.  My question is this, what is really the d...

BackupExec 20.1 - who is using it?

Hello I can't find topis on this forum so I created one.Who is so brave and upgarded to 20.1 ? not in test environment but on production?I have mixed virtual and phisical servers and I want to be sure that after upgrade I will stay on this version wi...

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Backup verify is running extremely slow

I am using Small Business Server 2011 Standard and Backup Exec 2010 R3, Backup verify is running extremely slow suddenly. The data is backed up to an external Hard disk, It used to take 1.5 hours to finish a daily backup job (~300 MB/mins)but it took...

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Missed Duplicate Jobs

Hi guysProbably a daft question but I was wondering of anyone could clear it up for me please?We have scheduled month ends to virtual tape and then a cooresponding duplicate that is triggered on completion of the month end that then writes that data ...

Backup Exec

Hello,Recently i have bought Backup Exec and is it possible to installin Windows 10-64 bit OS. Or Server OS in must for Backup Exec. 

Bare mteal DR question

Does Backup Exec require a different DR media for every backup run or can one bootable DR (CD/USB) be used with any backup tape for restoring?Our old system (which has had it's support dropped) we could use a single CD to restore any tape backed up o...

Backup exec 16

I have Backup exec 16 and I backuped form windows server to tape drivers but it is also save backups to file server. I want to backup onlt to tape. How can change it ? Please help me. thanks...

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How do I upgrade BE2014 to BE2016?

I currently have BE 14.1 1786.1093 running on WS2012R2. The database is on a separate SQL Server 2012 SE server.Q1. How do I do an in-place upgrade on the WS2012R2 server to BE 16?Q2: I'm currently using USB thumb drives which I daily rotate on BE 14...

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0xe00084af error and vss problems

Hi. I need help for this Error 0xe00084af in backup exec 15 and event id 8224 VSS shutting down in event viewer.I did study this post (https://vox.veritas.com/t5/Backup-Exec/0xe00084af-error-and-vss-problems/m-p/624680#M303016) but I failed to find a...

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Can you trigger a backup job manually via script?

I'm currently evaluating Backup Exec Trial Verison, and am wondering if there is a way to trigger a backup job via a .bat script or something simliar. I saw a 2012 help article disucssing a command utility for Backup Exec but can't find any recent re...

istuart by Level 2
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