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...
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...
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...
Hi, recently I have been trying to backup individual files with BE. However instaed of backing up these files it ends up backing up the folders minus files. I am not sure if something have been done wrong probably its the configuration, but i have t...
I have a Windows XP Machine which happens to have a HP Storageworks DAT72 tape drive on it. I also have a Windows 2003 R2 machine with no tape drive. I have installed the remote agent utility to the Windows 2003 R2 server (by pushing it out), howe...
I have a brand new install of Symantec Backup Exec for SBS 2008. I want to do backups during critical migration steps in the install process. The installation is done but when I go to create a backup job there's nothing to select. The dialog shows...
Hi, Does backup exec 12.5 support direct VHD domain controller backup via the Virtual server Agent or must the backup be done with a Windows Server agent on the domain controller to avoid AD sync issues in case of a restore? Is there a document desc...
Single-tape drive. Not a library. So I can't run a tape cleaning job. Under Drives and then properties for the drive, it says it's been 15359 hours since the last tape cleaning. And, I get messages fairly frequently, when labeling a tape, that th...
We recently had an extended power outage. Prior to the power outage backups (BE 12.5 with all but the latest patch) via our Quantum Ultrium 3 drive consistently ran between 390 MB/min and 430 MB/min. All of a sudden, after the power outage, backup s...
Hello all first off Backup Exec is running on Windows 2003 Server Standard. last week we updated our SQL server from 2000 to SQL 2005. since we did this i am not able to backup SQL while it is running. i keep getting the below error. any ideas? ...
Is it best to backup several servers in one backup job or to backup each server in it's own individual job?
Hi I've configured SMTP authentications in Backup Exec 12.5. My SMTP server is outside and requires SMTP authentication. I don't use exchange server or local SMTP. The problem is: even if you check smtp authentication in backup exec and enter data p...
I have been attempting to write/change descriptions on media but I have not had any luck. Right up until about 2 months ago (after I did some Live Updates) I lost the ability to be able to apply descriptions to media. I use this to let me know when c...
Anyone know how to write a report that will get me the amount of time that the device is in use durning a week? I have found the report that give a full use in hours I just need it by a week Thanks Rodger
We have a BE V9.0 server running on windows server 2000 Does this version support mapped drives from another windows server? I have mapped drives from two other servers but unable to backup them up with software installed on the 3rd computer. Th...
Our Windows SBS 2003 server crashed & we had to reinstall the OS. We then installed BackupExec 11d, hoping to restore the data from our daily backup. We have been running a full backup of our data every day M-F, and as of last check (before the cra...
Hi all, I've been getting this for the past few days and i'm stumped. It seems to be a permissions problem but I have checked and doublechecked everything. Anyone, please let me know something. Unable to attach to \\DEV\System?State. Access is de...
Hi, I am trying to install the Remote AGent for Win2k on our second server. It originally had Backup Exec on it untill we upgraded our backup drive and moved it to our other server. Now even though we have thouroughly cleaned the server we cant get t...
Hi, Can someone tell me what is the best version of Mdac to use with BE 9.1? Thanks NICK
Hello, I want to create a backup network with backup exec 9.1. What I want to do, is put a 3rd network card in my servers on a different ip subnet and only have the NIC get use for the backup server to acess the data on each particular server. I wa...
hi guys, I have a server running BE 9.1 + Oracle Agent. I have enough of a time window to allow me to do an offline and online Oracle database backup overnight. I would like to do the offline and online backups on to ONE tape for disaster recovery ...
Hello, I am running Veritas 9.0 on Win 2000 Advanced server using a single DDS4 Compaq tape drive. The drive is working properly because the data is being written to it fine. My problem is I can not run the cleaning tape without it being ejected i...
Here is the scenario- I have a 20 gig exchange database. Should I be backing up the store and the mailboxes? It is a lot of data to be backing up on a regular basis. 2x that if I just backed up the mailboxes. I am guessing that the database logs are ...
