We are currently recruiting customers who are interested in participating in the upcoming Backup Exec 22 Technical Preview Program. The Technical Preview Program for the upcoming release of Backup Exec contains some new features which continue to pos...
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...
I downloaded the 60 day trial of Backup Exec to test to see whether we should switch to it from Acronis True Image 9. There are a lot of features in BU I really like and I am almost ready to make the switch but I am a very concerned about the slow da...
I have inherited a server with Windows Server 2003 with Exchange 2003 and Backup Exec 10d (without the Exchange option). Whoever set this up before, set it up to shutdown Exchange, run the backup, then restart Exchange. Normally when Exchange serve...
When trying to restore files to a Mac server, the job always fails due to an error stating that "Access is denied to remote agent" and the job completion status says "Authentication failed on connection to the server. Make sure that the user accoun...
I have a question about the documentation. In the admin guide, page 1339, it says that if you use vCenter, you can only use the "Full" backup method. In my case, I've got a media server running vCenter. Does this mean that I can't do incremental "Fu...
I need to setup some SQL backups in a two node clustered environment. My question is do I need to install the remote agent on each node? Also as far as licensing, would I need to have a SQL license for each individual node, or just get one for the ...
We are have been running BE12.5 on Windows Small Business Server for several years. Recently the application stopped responding. All the services are running, but when you open the application and try and do anything, like set-up back-up sele...
We currently have One Windows Server 2003 SBS with Backup Exec for Windows Small Business Server Edition 11d Standard. We are planning on adding a new server hardware to house the user files in a Shared Folder, we will need to backup that specific fo...
I’m switching over from using tapes to using backup-to-disk. I'd like to be able to go back four days (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu) and four weeks (1 Fri ago, 2 Fri ago, 3 Fri ago . . .) How do I setup my backup-to-disk folders? Right now I have 1 job, 1 b...
Hi guys, When I try to setup up a Removable Disk Backup (to replace tapes), all runs fine except each day the Backup Exec services on the server have to be restarted for it to find the USB drive. This is very well while I set it up but I don't wa...
I've been backing up and rotating 50 tapes. All of a sudden I'm getting an error message saying my tape from 12/2008 cannot backup because it's full and there is overwrite protection on it. I check my overwrite protection options and it's 3 weeks. Wh...
Dear All meber one my client is looking for deduplication tools for storage analysis tool from Symatec . some one told me that it Available at site but could not find it . your response will be highly appreciated . Warm Regards Girijesh
Hi, Can anybody tell me when Windows 7 will be supported by Backup Exec 12.5 SP2? Or do I have to do my backup another way? If you know then please reply. It should be a centralised solution for backing up my clients. Best Regards Morten Wiingree...
Hello all, we are using Symantec AVVI with a 2GB/s Fibre Channel adapter. We decide to backup over SAN. But the backup job is running with an average speed of 450 MB / min. only a little bit faster as the backup over network. Where I can do some fin...
I have a customer who has tried to run Backup Exec 12.5 schedule automatic Live Update but it does not find any updates. If he however runs the manual Live Update it finds new updates which he can download and install. He has tried the Live Update...
Is there a report that i could run that would tell me if there are multipole jobs backing up the same data? I just started a new job and I have taken the roll as the backup guy. Please let me know.
Hi there, I have a strange behaviour within Backup Exec: If I created a "normal" job with Job Setup > Jobs, activate the email notification within the job and choose "Include job log with a notification..." this works fine. I receive a mail afte...
Hi, I have BE 10 running on our Lotus Notes server with the Notes agent. Suddenly last week, our backup went from backing up 280GB to 152GB. On investigation, it's only backup up the first 14 files in the mail directory. ie the users' mail files in ...
Hi, I'm using BE 11d with symantec drivers and also all the hot fixes are installed. I was just wondering what types of things there are that would effect a job rate. I have some servers that run at 3000MB/min and others that run at 300MB/min. What k...
Explain the pros and cons of setting never expires on Mediaset written to dedupdisk. I understand that many job points to the same dedup block. So the block will not be deleted until the last pointer to the block disappears. Normally there is alot...
Hello, We have a server that seems to hardly ever complete a full scheduled backup. We have to come in every day and change tapes then re-insert tapes for verify. Any suggestions on this.. Saleem
