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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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Hyper-V and AD Agents

Hiya, We have these 2 agents and i'm a bit confused about their usage. Symantec's website says the Hyper-V agent can be used to restore individual virtual files and folders from within VMs, yet when I try and select files and folders inside the Hyp...

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Unable to create selection list

We are using Version 9.1 rev 4691 for a few years now, but form monday it gives problems. When I want to make a new Backup jop and want to finish it it gives me this "Unable to create selection list. I can not make a new backup job. When I want to...

Resolved! allow this job to have direct access to the device >problem

hi guys I'm new in direct access feature of backup exec and become a little confused. my media server is on windows server 2008 ent. I cearte a deduplicate device accordin to symantec document like this and add remote agent with direct access to...

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symantec BE 2010

we have the latest BE 2010, the issue is trying to add a NAS storage device like our Western digital we are not able to add it to the user defined selection list. the external hard drive is a nas also with usb attached the usb is not attached only t...

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Resolved! Pre-Command Syntax

Using BE 2010 with Windows Server 2003. I have three seperate directories that get backed up using different jobs but use the same pre-command. Rather than write 3 seperate batch files, is there a way in the pre-command to specify where to find the c...

Backup to Disk job fails with ODBC error

BE 2010 on Win 2008 x64 Standard I have a weekly job that runs and backs up about 1 TB and for the last month it was gone almost all the way to the end and fails with an error: 1. Job ended: Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 10:31:02 PM Completed status...

Hanging Windows Server 2003 w/ Backup Exec 12.5

We have a customer using the following hardware and software: - Aberdeen brand server (Supermicro hardware) with Areca SAS RAID card and LSI SCSI card - Overland Storage Neo 4000e SCSI library with one HP LTO-4 drive - Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 on W...

Resolved! Recover Data From Old Backup Tapes

I inherited the backup admin position and I am cleaning up some of the mess. The previous admin was recycling the demo version of BE2010 so I have a lot of valuable tapes but no database to reference from. I am looking to restore some data from one o...

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Resolved! Missing Data of Network Share

Running BE2010 on Server 2008 R2. I have two servers which replicate through DFS. I went to perform a restore of a folder on a network share on one of these servers and nothing was backed up. I checked the job itself and the subfolders and files are ...

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Problem in Backup of VMWare ESX

Hello, I m trying to backup VMWare ESX vSphere 4.0 Licensed version using Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Server. I have installed VCB on my media server. I have attached the backup configuration snapshots which will help you in understanding the possib...

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Problem with VMware agent

Thinking about buying the VMware agent so I am testing the trial. Trying to backup a VMware server is creating a snapshot and not deleting it after the backup completes. Multiple backups create multiple snapshots and never deletes them thus eating up...

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Problems with policies - times not changing correctly

We are running Backup Exec 12.5 with current live updates on a Windows 2008 server. We are using policies to create a B2D, B2T and then B2T again.  This gets us backup to disk, backup to tape (for on-site), and backup to tape again (for off-site st...

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Resolved! Which sql agent for backup exec?

I am running backup exec 11d for windows with  server 2003 and sql 2005 on one server and windows server 2000 with sql 7.0 on another server. I'm doing a backup with the remote agent. and  I need to know what agent do I need to backup sql files for b...

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Resolved! Backup Exec 2010 SQL Agent and MSDE databases

Hi folks, This is following on from my previous discussion regarding Backup Exec not backing up SQL .mdf files when doing a full system backup. I have now started experimenting with the trial version of the SQL Agent. So here is my setup: I have a ...

Incredibly Slow Back up times when file/folders are excluded

We are currently running a Full backup each week followed by a differential backup. The Full backup amasses to around 1.2TB and each differential grows by about 15GB each day so Day 1 - 15GB Day 2 - 30GB and so on... I have been scratching my he...

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