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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! Getting the error while taking the backup

 I am getting the below error while taking the backup. i m using symatec backup exec 12. Please help me to find a  solution.This problem is only for one job and thats repeating continously from last week.All other jobs are running with out any proble...

Resolved! BE11d Logs flooding the Job Monitor

Hi all, I am currently administering a client whose logs are flooding the Job Monitor section. I have over 250,000 "Missed" status jobs alone, since 9/09. Why does it continually need to post the status throughout the night into the next day approxim...

Deven by Level 3
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Resolved! Write Protected????? Its Not!!!!!

We are running BE9 on one of our servers. It works fine execpt for the fact it won't overwrite tapes. It keeps telling me that the media is overwrite protected, which it isn't. Settings for overwrite media all seem to be correct. We currently get...

S_Mike by Level 3
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Resolved! Quick way to find out what job a tape was used in

 Hi guys, I've set up BE to do a full backup each Sunday, with Incrementals every other day. Sometimes I seem to get an orphaned tape that I can't easily identify what's on it. Is there a quick way to determine which backup job(s) a tape was used ...

DanyB by Level 3
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Resolved! Backup suddenly started to fail

I have BE8.5 running on a Windows SBS 2000 machine. It was all working fine, until 2 days ago when the backup of SBS Exchange Server started to fail saying that access was denied. Unable to attach to \\ExhSrv\Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes. Acess is d...

M_Janne by Level 3
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Resolved! BE and Domino 6 without Agent

Anyone know if it is possible to backup your Domino database files without the Domino agent?   I have noticed that my backups are reading successful, however, it is ommitting all my Domino specific files, including when the Domino server is offline. ...

Symantec Backup Exec 12.3

Hi, I newly installed backup exec 12.5, with 8 tapes HP robotic, and configured the backup successfully, now after I replaced all tapes and I want to create a new backup policy from the scratch, I’m not able to import the new tapes to the Scratch Med...

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New Backup scenario - opinions please!

Hello All, I'm a newbie here and I want to backup my servers in my network but I need some help please. We upgraded from SBS2000 to EBS2008 system ( managemente server, security server, exchange server+secondary domain controler + SQL server) and a...

gaiex by Level 3
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Restoring data from a duplicate backup set

What am I doing wrong? We recently implemented a new D2D2T system.  The D2D is a HP D2D 2504 which uses deduplication.  From a full backup to the D2D we make a duplicate backup set to tape using an HP 1x8 G2 autoloader.  We use BE 12.5 on Windows 200...

Managing Media

A collegue and myself are trying to figure out the best way to manage our media, and realize media sets will be the best. However, we are not exactly sure what to set them as. This is our setup. We have a tape for each day fo the week: M T W TH F ...

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BacupExec 10d - Pending Alerts email

I have inherited BackUp Exec 10d from an employee who left the company. He had configured BackUp Exec to send emails every 1 minute when there are pending alerts that need to be addressed. I have searched all over, but cannot find out how to change t...

Jeff_WI by Level 2
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Drop in compression ratio

We are using BE 12.0 rev 1364 SP4 + Hotfix 312831.  Up until 12/3/09 we were consistently getting compression ratios between 1.3:1 and 1.4:1.  Starting on 12/4/09 the compression dropped on all backups tapes to either 1:1 or 1.1:1 causing the bcakup ...

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BackUp Exec 12.5 backing up Netapp FAS2020

We are currently running Backup Exec 12.5 on a Windows 2003 server. We use this to backup a Netapp FAS2020 but keep getting the following error message: (Server: "BACKUP-SERVER") (Job: "Netapp01 and Netapp02 Incremental-Netapp Incremental-Netapp In...

BE 11.0 7170 for Windows Server 2003

Hi Full backup skips *.edb, *.log, *.chk and EventCons files with below errors. Unable to open the item C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\EUMEA\EventCons - skipped. Unable to open the item C...

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Resolved! Restoring 3TB of data from tape to disk.

Just wondering if anyone here know a quick/easy method for what I need to do. I need to restore 3tb of data from my tape on to disk and give the hard drives to my client to view the data. Obviously I can restore all the data onto a file server and f...

T_T1 by Level 4
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Location of Backup Exec files

I'm wondering if there is a document that tells you where each file for Backup Exec is installed.  I know that several of the files are located in a backup exec directory, but I was wondering what files are installed in the c:\windows and c:\windows\...

Understanding weekly based schedule

Running BENT 9.1 on windows server 2003 Old backup schema was a "monthly" rotation of tapes.  Friday is full, M-Tr is a Daily.  Last Friday of the month pulled from rotation.   We had 5 weeks of tapes.  Green = week 1, Yellow = week 2, Blue= week 3,...

how to delete source after backup

I am trying to use Backup Exec for a specific task of archiving a folder to an external hard drive and delete the source files once it is done. Is it possible? Thanks.

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