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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! Agent distribution.

Just wanted to ask that is there any good way or tricks etc to see what the version is and or distribute agents to servers? I well personally think that the way trough the "normal" way is a bit hmm not so handy. :) Any ideas? Thanks.

gncd by Level 2
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Resolved! Backing up administrative shares without Agent

Does anyone know if it is possible to backup by \\SERVERNAME\F$ as an example like you can in Arcserve without the purchase of a remote agent? I know I could create shares all over the place but would prefer not to have to do that. Thanks in advanc...

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BE 12.5 Duplicate finished but reports as failed ...

Hi! Im doing a Week/Daily backup to a USB disk using BackupExec 12.5 (latest rev.). After the backup is completed successfully a duplicate is scheduled to start to another USB disk. When the duplicate is finished it always is reported as failed (se...

Resolved! Is there a command to INSERT a tape/

 We support a remote system with a Seagatge STT3401A tape drive using Backup Exec 10. From time-to-time, it is necessary for a local user to physically re-insert a tape that has been ejected.  Is there an operating system or Backup Exec command I ca...

CPS Agent 12.5 Versions

Hello, Can anyone tell me where I can download the different versions of the CPS Agent? I have installed different versions on test servers but I am now unable to uninstall them. I am specifically looking for 12.5.417.5401 & 12.5.417.6401. I have ...

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Resolved! B2D file size

Hi,  I'm backing 600GB to a backup disk folder, the default setting for the file size is 1GB - I have changed this to 1TB, is this   the correct approach? Or, if I set it lower, will BE break down into lots of smaller files? Thanks Dean

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Resolved! Veritas notifications

 Hi I'm running Symantec Backup Exec 10.1 Rev 5629 with SP3 on a Windows 2003 R2 SP1 server. Notifications to email or printers do not work but the tests do. What am I missing? Thanks for any help. Shaun

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Resolved! ASR backup

 Hello. I recently had to restore a server with a crashed raid5 array from backups completely. I did not have an ASR backup on hands, so I just installed os, then Backup Exec agent, then restored c: drive completely, then rebooted, etc.. It worked. S...

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Resolved! Backup Strategy Query!! BE9

 How exactly does veritas actually decide in which order a nightly backup is ran? Is it ran by how you add the files in the backup selections or is it done alphabetically??

Resolved! Differential Backups

 I am currently using a differential backup system but would like to know a little bit more about it. I have it set up as follows: Monday:  Differential Tuesday:  Differential Wednesday:  Differential Thursday:  Differential Friday:  Full Back-up ...

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Continuous Protection Server indexing

We are currently running CPS 12.5.  If we don't use BERetrieve, can we turn off the indexing and if so, how? Can we just stop the indexing service on the CPS server and set it to disabled?   Or uninstall indexing components from the protected serve...

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Resolved! Do I need to run catalog jobs every day?

 Am I supposed to have a catalog created for each backup job I run?  If so, how do I do it so that the cataloguing takes place immediately after the backup job, every day? Thanks John

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Question related to Backup Exec "Completed with exceptions"

Dear all professionals, I have question about the backup exec. I have created a job to backup mail server, the job method is using copy not full. When I check the job status and fond that the job status completed with exceptions. The exceptions log ...

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12.5 SP3 Does not eject media

I am running 12.5 SP3 on a Windows 2003 R2 server connected to an IBM Ultrium HH4 drive.  In my job setup it has a checkmark in "Eject media after job completes" but is not doing so.  In fact, the job hangs until someone physically presses the Eject ...

backupexec and puredisk

I am learning and doing some work for a client. They are asking why you would use puredisk. My understanding is that this is a place that utilizies deduplication and then when you backup to puredisk then hyou can backupfrom that to a tape is this cor...

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Backup Exec catalogs get deleted

I'm having a problem with my catalogs being removed after 90 days.  I don't believe with my settings, that they should be removed.  Am I missing something? Version 10d - CASOption; no centralized catalogs Tools>Options>Catalog Use storage media-bas...

Questions on Backup Exec 12.5 for SBS

Hello all, We have a client we recently migrated from a Linux based server to SBS 2008.  Their server came with Backup Exec 12.5 Small Business Server Edition. The SBS 2008 server is a VM running under XenServer.  Backup Exec is also installed on th...

Can´t see Drive (IBM TS3100)

Hello everyone! We use Backup Exec 11D (Rev.7170 - SP4 + HF69). Last week we got a new TS3100. I installed the driver and i see the changer and the drive in the System Device Manager (Windows  2003 Std.Edition - SP2). After start from BE11, i see onl...

Backup Exec V10d

We have used Backup Exec for several years now with our tape drive Quantum DLT-v4, we started having problems so we decided to replace the tape drive with the exact same model. We have the tape drive installed but are now unable to communicate with t...