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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! Is running verify really important

I currently run verify after every backup job using BE 12.5. It really adds a lot to the time it takes for the jobs to complete. My question is how useful running the verify is?Thanks

Resolved! NDMP Backup with NETAPP v9

Hi,I trying to add a Netapp filer as NDMP data server into Backup Exec 16 (fully updated on 2016-02-21).I always get an error message "permission denied". See attachment of a print screen.The filer hosts several SVMs. ndmp node-scope-mode is disabele...

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Resolved! mixed BE-Versions

Hi,we're about to implement server 2016 with BE16. We already have w2012r2 and Be14 in use, with CAS and managed Backup-servers. We are changing to LTO7 and to take full advantage of it, we are trying to use/test the new server, software/tape-drives ...

BE16 Linux Agent (RALUS) root browse error (access denied)

Hello,We are trying to backup some Linux machines with BackupExec 2016, however we keep having problems browsing the clients. It works when we use the following solution from http://www.geekshangout.com/backup-exec-ralus-agent-for-linux-failure-to-br...

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stopping jobs being rescheduled if missed

hi,i wonder if anyone can tell me how to stop  a job being rescheduled if it gets missed in backupexec 2016.in previous versions i recall setting a start no later than xxxx time in the schedule, but i cant see that option in 2016? is that option stil...

Capacity Edition

Hi, Just a quick question. My maintenance is up for renewal soon and i was looking at the Capacity Edition version instead of renewing my licenses especially my v-ray subscription, which as gone up 60% since they have now swapped to per CPU rather th...

No media recognized in the tape drive

I have a virtual enviornment (ESXi) . One virtual server is the Backup Exec Server, I have added the HP HBA to the Backup Exec Server.Problem:The device state has been set to offline because the device attached to the computer is not responding.Tape ...

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VM Backup and VSS

I'm of the opinion that if you backup VMs with Backup Exec WITHOUT the agent or GRT options enabled in the job, then backup exec will still use VSS to quiece the OS, SQL Databases, Exchange etc to ensure a recoverable system (Flush all writes to disk...

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Hyper-V selection grayed out

We want to make a selection from one of our HyperV nodes, but if we scroll down we cant make a selection?Only want to back-up the F drive and not all the VHDX files, if we do our back-up failes because of not mounted SQL database.OS: Windows 2012 R2A...

Unable to recover from "Discovering resources"... Stuck forever

Hello,I have been reading tons of articles about how to fix the stuck on Discvering resources in BackupExec 15. Nothing seems to help.I've updated NIC drivers, Windows update, etc....If i stop all services and reboot, i can't create new jobs as Serve...

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Tapes used report

I'm looking to start using barcode labelled tapes in my backup schedule, but to do this, i need BE to send out a report each morning of what tapes were written to over the past 24 hours, so my support team can remove the correct tapes to go offsitedo...

Backups refuse to run due to no contact between the servers

Had SEVERAL problems with the BackupExec 2012. I managed to fix most of them. The problems begun after new years:https://vox.veritas.com/t5/Backup-Exec/Backup-Exec-storage-amp-duplicate-entry-problems/m-p/825759#M351660(No need to read all of that)A ...

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Disabel Media Notification

Hi,I am using Backup Exec 16 and after the job completes, the media is ejected. But the job is still marked running until I click "yes, I'll remove the media". I know I have to change the media, I don't need a reminder. The more useful reminder would...

Add partition and drive to Storage Pool

HiI'm having issues configuring partitions and drives in a storage pool. There seems to be only an option to add the complete tape-drive and no partitions. I cant find how to combine these in documentation or online. Please help me solve this or find...

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SDR restore different hardware

Hello, backup exec 2016.I got a server A (sdr from a poweredge R510 windows 2003 r2) and a server B (poweredge 2950 windows 2003 r2) The goal is to restore the server A on a B server that we got in spare.So i created the SDR and tick when creation se...