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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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Event 34579 - Evaluation expiring alert for unused agent

I am backing up a server with a local copy of BackupExec 12.5 SP1.  The server only backs up itself, and no other BackupExec servers back up its files. I have started receiving Alerts with Event ID 34579 which read, "The evaluation period for one or...

Backup Exec agent for MAC OS 10.5.7

I've been checking the BE12.5 HCL for updates and things haven't changed since 12/2008.  At that time BE supported MAC OSx 10.5.5 the current release is 10.5.7.  When can I expect the BE12.5 agent that supports this release?  How long does it usually...

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Archiving Backup to Disk folders...

Hi all... Question - we are looking to upgrade our backup routines - currently backing up to tape, but we are looking to start backing up to disk instead. (Running BackupExec 12). We have a few TB of disk for this, but the question is - when that fe...

Resolved! Copy vs Full Backup - Difference in Size

Hi All, Does anyone know if a Full backup will result in a different byte count to a Copy backup?  Obviously if the backups are run at different times you would expect a different byte count if data has changed - but assuming the data hasn't changed...

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Numbers of authorized RAWS on a media server

Hello I use an old Backup Exec Media Server (on v11d), there were 3-4 RAWS on it. I have added recently a licence for 10 RAWS The support center said me that i can't see how many RAWS i can have on a server. So i added some RAWS and now i can't se...

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Starting a backup job

Is there a way to start a backup job, from Sql Server, or Windows?  I am running a job that rebuilds indexes, and once it is done, I want to run a transaction dump and a a full backup.  I run the job once a month, and I would like the backup to be do...

How To Upgrade The RAWS?

Running BEWS 12.5 with Lotus Domino agent on two Domino servers (media server and remote server). After installing BEWS 12.5 SP2 on the media server, now cannot backup the remote server ("A communications error has occurred").  Event viewer on media...

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Error installing hotfix 324947

Hi, We are having an issue installing Hotfix 324947 by either Liveupdate or using the downloaded patch directly.  BE 12.5 SP2 has already been applied successfully although I had to do rename 'BEInstParams.prm' to BEInstParams.prm.old' to get that to...

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Resolved! Best Practice Backing Up SQL Databases

Hi Guys, I've recently had a phone call with Symantec support to try an diagnose a Snapshot Processing problem and during the phone call the engineer advised us to separate our SQL DB backups from our AOFO File System backups.  This seems a little o...

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Loading Media / Failed problems..

Our office is running a Windows 2003 SBS from Dell. Attached to that is a Dell PowerVault and we are running BackupExec 11d. This unit is an LTO2 which is capable of 200G/400GB. We have daily backups which are scheduled Monday through Friday and sta...

IDR Errors

Hello I've successfully taken a full backup and the .dr file has been created. I've also successfully created the boot CD and can boot the machine from this. Errors: 1 Not found file vga866.fon (attach file vga866.PNG) 2 Not worked button "Configu...

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Updating Unix like agents

Hello. We are using BE 12.5 in a largely Windows environment, but have a handful of Sun boxes and now one Debian Linux box. Recently a Nessus scan revealed (to my embarrassment) that the non Windows boxes have gone unpatched... I have remedied this, ...

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Resolved! Backup speed came down from 500 MB/min to 2 MB/min

Hi all, hope you can help me with this one. I have a job that backup that was working fine and backing up at 500 MB/min aprox. Other 3 jobs are also configured for other 3 different servers and were working the same way. All of a sudden the robotic ...

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Problems to restore an Mailbox E2K3

Hello anybody, first off all - sorry for bad english. I try to restore an Mailbox an an Win 2003 SBS Server with Backup Exec 11d. The Job log said everything is all right. But if i try to restore i choos the storage group, see the public and privat...

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Can't restore individual mailboxes

Everytime I try to restore a single mailbox, BE restores the entire information store. I am selecting GRT on the original backup and the restore jobs, I have reinstalled the latest agents, I can SEE the individual mailboxes right down to the individu...

unable to browse doamin

i have a backup exec server which is a stand alone server. i am unable to browse the domain. I can backup data from my exchange server by simply typing in the path of the files, however i cannot browse to it to select storage groups. i have added ano...

Backup Exec 12 Running Long when Exchange Is added

I have Backup Exec 12 revision 1364 installed on Server 2003 with SP2. I'm backing up files across 3 servers and when I do the file backups, it runs in about 5 hours and backs up 240gb to a Dell tape drive without incident. Perfect. I recently noti...

Resolved! Tape Backup of Oracle 11g RAC environment using Backup Exec 12.5

I have the following system configuration: Windows 2003/2008 Oracle 11g 4 node RAC ASM configured Backup Exec 12.5 Will I be able to use Backup Exec to backup and recover my database from tape archive?  If so, is there online documentation on the p...

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