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Backup Exec 22.2 - BETA Program registration is open

We are recruiting for our exclusive BETA Program for Veritas Backup Exec 22.2, and we hope that you will consider joining. The program is tentatively planned to start May 29 and run through June 19, 2023. The actual time commitment that we would requ...

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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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Resolved! Active Directory System State access denied since SP3

hi We got the same error from : http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/328487.htm Now we never installed that patch or uninstalled it again. It always caused us this problem. Now it looks like since installing SP3 this behaviour is back in a more...

Resolved! MSL2024 Slot numbers and import library

I have some issues to get the import function working proberly on our MSL2024 tape library. 1) Mail slot are enabled, and slot nr. 2 is cleanslot. But backupexec shows it wrong. It seems to be it does not reconize slot1 as mailslot, and then rename ...

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Resolved! remote agent service just says STARTING

 Hi All, I am hoping that someone can help me out.  I am running Veritas Backup Exec for Windows 9.0.  I have the remote agent on one other server.  Everything was working fine until I rebooted the computer this morning.  Now the remote agent service...

Cannot Backup SQL 2000 databases with Backupexec 12.5

Hi, The configuration is: windows server 2003x64 Enterprise R2 with SQL Server 2000 Media server is on a Windows 2003 Enterprisex86 R2. The Erorr is:  Backup- sqlserver Database \TestBackup was not found, or could not be accessed. Backup- sqlserve...

Resolved! Backup failed - removed old server from the network

Hi guys,   I removed a server from my network and deselected it in backup exec. last night backup failed and I got the following message   Final error: 0xe000846b - The resource could not be backed up because an error occurred while connecting to the...

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Backup Exec 12 SP4 Install/Uninstall

Hi there, Recently I installed SP4 for Backup Exec 12 on a clients SBS2003 SP2 server and now backups have stopped working, is anyone else experiencing this issue?  I thought possibly my tape firmware was out of date, but I am on the latest version....

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Resolved! BE append to multiple tapes when backing up

Does anyone know of a setting in BE 10d to allow a backup job to append to multiple tapes in a library instead of appending to one tape and then require scratch media to complete job? Example: Need to backup 600GB from one server. When this job be...

Johnlex by Level 3
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Resolved! restoring to a virtual box

 Hi all, Is it possible to restore a back up of a server to a dummy / blank virtual server? anyone know of any product to convert from physical to virtual, any evaluations available ?? Thanks Jasen

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Resolved! BE 11d - Backup SharePoint 2007

 Hi all, Got BE 11d, build 7170. We also have a SharePoint 2007 agent (alongside others such as SQL and Exchange). However I am having problems in setting up the backup for SharePoint 2007 / MOSS 2007. Whilst I obviously know the server name for the ...

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Resolved! Differential-B2D backups issues

 Version 11d. I'm having a problem with some overwrite period or something when I'm backing up to disk. The previous week's differential backups are being overwritten. For exampled. I perform a diff. backup to disk on Monday-Thurs on Weekl, A full ...

Jeromy by Level 3
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Resolved! BE 11d - Scheduling jumps to a week ahead

 I've got 2 x backup to disk jobs scheduled for 10 and 11pm each night. For some reason the Friday job at 11pm seems to show next Friday's date in Job Monitor, rather than tonight's.  All the other jobs run according to schedule and on time on date. ...

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Can not conntect to VMware Servers ESXi 4.0

I downloaded the Eval version of 12.5 (want to test before buy). Installed it with VMware option. When I go to backup selection VMware VirtualCenter and ESX Servers I add my servers but get an error when connecting. Failed to access. I add the root...

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Resolved! Help needed

Backup Exec 8.6, Windows 2000 and Stand alone tape drives. I need to check that each server has had the tape loaded prior to starting the backup job. Is this possible to do? Fred

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BE 12.5 SMTP error

I added SMTP service to a new WIndows 2008 Small Business Server machine.  There is no authentication required and its using the standard port 25 I've configured the logging feature of BE to diagnose this issue.  When i run the TEST function from wi...

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Resolved! Remote Agents

I was wondering if there was a quick and easy way to find out what remote agents are installed on my various servers. For instance, I have several DB's to back up and would like to know if a SQL agent is actually installed on these machines.

Backup Exec 10d Hardware Compatibilty List

We are running Backup Exec 10d (no $$ to upgrade) but our current tape drive died and need to purchase a new one. I found a HCL list for BE 10d but it's 2 years old.  I was looking at the HP StorageWorks LTO-3 Ultrium 920 drive (SCSI interface). Does...

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Creation of Backup-to-disk files = extreme slow

When the option 'Allocate the maximum size for backup-to-disk files' is enabled, the creation of Backup-to-disk files is extremely slow. I have observed delays of up to 15 minutes for a 4GB file!!! (= 266MB/min = 35Mbps). The use of Process Monitor s...

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