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 needed more RAM in my backup server so had to upgrade from Windows 2003 x86 to Windows 2003 x64. I'm using a Dell Poweredge 2900 and connecting to a SpectraLogic 64k Gator tape library. The server is pretty intensely configured with multiple HBAs, ...
This is probably a REAL simple one, and will expose my inexperience with Symantec's BE. In a Small Office setup I have 2 1TB hard drives rotating on a weekly basis. Whenever I rotate the HD's I get the Alert "Please insert overwritable media int...
I have a strange problem with my Backup Exec 12 installation. It has been working great for the past few years. However, last Friday one of the backup jobs failed and ever since then things are not working. If I try to Eject the tape, run an invento...
I am pretty new to backups in general, and I have been given control over our BE system. I have a few questions. For my file server, I want to use differentials, and I scheduled the backup to run every day on schedule as a diff. Do I need to schedu...
Hello, I have read a lot of similar posts here but couldn't find right answer for me. I'm having problem configuring IBM TS3100 Tape Library in Backup Exec 9.1 The situation is as follows Server - IBM x345 Series Type-model 8670-MCG running Window...
Hello, I have Backup Exec 12.5 on a Small Business Server 2003 and we backup the First Storage Group/Mailbox Store without any incidents. The issue we have is that it does not allow to restore individual mailboxes, nothing is presented as an option, ...
I've a windows server 2003 box where the backupexec server service won't start. It sits trying forever until you kill the servicesmgr.exe process. If anyone can help it'd be great but I'm ready to re-install and would like to export licence and selec...
Hello All, I have a little dilemma, over the last few weeks the company has gone from 2 LOT4 tapes to 3 and I’m finding it hard to see where exactly the increases is coming from. In the past I have used Tree size and taken a snap shot every week but...
As the title says, is it supported to put a large weekly full backup on one large external drive and the daily differentials on different smaller external drives swapped out daily? We outgrew our daily full backup and we want to move to a weekly ...
Hi all - I am looking through the forums but figured I would ask anyway... I am running BE 12.5 Service Pack 2, and am trying to restore a small database to one of my SQL Servers (database is about 1.5 GB). The current job rate is 2 MB / min... th...
I am testing CASO with one CASO server and 5 MMS servers in various locations. When the MMS loses network connection all jobs on the MMS serer stop and the BE GUI locks. When network conneciton is restored the jobs restart or the GUI becomes activ...
** BE 12.5 ** Recently I did a Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion and all went well except for when it comes time to do my backup of the server. When I view the server in my Favorite Resources>Windows Systems it doesn't show the utility partition...
I am using BackupExec 12.5 ver 2213 and having problems with the Job asking for Scatch media. Why would the job not use free/appendable tapes that are in it's media set? I am having to take a tape from the media set and move it to scratch media for...
Hi, I'm trying to restore a Windows 2003 member server (file server) from last full backup but I'm not having much luck. I'm using Backup Exec 12.5 with latest updates and following instructions found in this Symantec document: http://seer.entsuppo...
Hello all- I have searched for my issue, if it is indeed an issue, but have been unable to find an answer. What I have going on his that I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 box w/ SP2 and Exchange 2003 Ent SP2. I am running BE 12.5 on a different serv...
Hey all, Does anyone know if it's possible to restore Backup Exec data using NetBackup 6.5 Unix. Here's the breakdown. A client is using Symantec 12 Backup Exec to Ultrium3 LTO tapes. My system is Veritas NB 6.5 on Solaris to Ultrium 3 LTO tape...
I'm working on automating default options in Backup Exec 11D.7170 SP2, and do want to turn off live update. I have searched quite some time, but haven't got any nearer to a conclusion. Is this possible to do? /beb
I have a domain with BE 12.5 doing backups, and have just switched out my old DC's for 2 new DC's running Svr 2008 Ent. I am trying to move over/install the BE Client on either of the 2 systems, but am getting "ERROR: Installation failed with error 1...
Hi All, We have Backup Exec 8.6 installed on Windows Server 2000 SP4 and was working fine until last week our Backup Server crashed. We re-install the whole thing. Now, the backup jobs can run, but only failed at Verifying. Error Message from Event...
Hi! I've installed BEWS 12.5 64 bit on Windows 2008 standard 64 bit edition. When I try to install the agent remotely to other servers (mostly Windows 2003) I get an error: "Error connecting to the remote registry of server. Ensure that the current...
