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...
Now I know people are going to say "don't do brick level", "it's slow because it is" and things like that, but this used to be fine (well relatively). However one night earlier this month, the brick level suddenly started being VERY slow. It went f...
We recently upgraded Symantec Backup Exec to 12.5. The upgrade seemed to go well as all of our data (jobs, etc) showed up in the new installation. However, the jobs have never completed successfully. They seem to fail during the VERIFY stage. If ...
I am seeing some very slow Job rates with the nightly backups. It is at about 107 MB/min to about 103 MB/min. It use to be arount 1172 MB/min on 1-27-2009. I am using a Tandberg TS400 with the following config on the device: Block Size (per Device...
Hello,I have a new server (2.83Ghz Xeon Quad-Core, 4GB RAM, 2x146GB Seagate Cheetah SAS Raid-1) with Windows SBS 2008.The system runs fine until I install Backup Exec 12.5 (SBS license). After I created a backup job the whole system becomes extremely...
I'm having a problem when I have two backup sets. I have a "daily" (used for incrementals) and a "weekly" set (full backups). The tapes are in an autoloader, and they seem to change the sets by themselves. After I come back in after the weekend, I...
Hello,I have Veritas Backup Exec 11d SP4 with a hardware DELL 110T - ULTRIUM-TD3 on a Windows 2003 SP2 with 4GB of RAM. I tell you the problem or doubt. When it he begins the backup it goes to a speed of 6000 MB/min when it does backup of a remote se...
This past weekend we had an odd thing happen. We were running backups of our Exchange03 server (w2k3) Doing full backups. We had some errors: "A failure occurred querying the Writer status." causing the backup jobs to fail. Now normally we will have ...
I have 67 servers, and I want to create the first backup job, and then have each subsequent job when it finishes, start the next job. How can I do this?(I think the documentation is kind of lacking, so please don't "RTFM", because I have). There need...
Hi, I have a job that runs daily to backup information store on one of our exchange servers, its a full backup. I made some changes, and deleted a store group, the backup job still looks for that storage group/info store. Is there a way for me to fix...
We're currently on 10d and I've been asked to upgrade us to 12.5. All licensing has been purchased and I've been asked to have the upgrade done this week. My question is, can I backup all the settings currently so that if there is a problem, I don'...
We had a major issue when our VM guy updates the converter to version 4.0; we had to revert to version 3.0.2 to get backups to work again. Now, it seems, there is a virtual center update that rolls version 4 of converter into it; he tells me there is...
Data layout: 2 x 800GB LUN FC zoned to 3 ESX hosts for VM datastore1 x 2TB LUN FC zoned to Backup Exec serverVCenter is using local storage and IP connectivity to communicate w/ ESX cluster Currently we are backing up via ethernet/IP. I want to backu...
Hi, I'm having an issue here where Backup Exec is very slow to backup Exchange remotely using Backup Exec remote agent. We use the same tape drive to backup another server remotely using Backup Exec remote agent to backup files and directories and th...
Hi All Question. Found a test and dev environement at work using a older, licensed copy of Veritas, thats backup up MSDN servers, domino etc Question, is this ok? With Microsoft, you cannot use volume licenses with MSDN but not sure with other softwa...
Hi there, I have a fairly complex (to me) 10d system to manage. It's currently connected to an IBM TS3200 but the license for tape movement automation was not purchased - am working on that now. It backs up a number of Windows, Linux, and Unix serv...
Hi, I am running BE 12.0 on a Windows 2003 SP 1 Server. I would like to know if it is possible to create a script so the BE performs an inventory of the media and a quick media of the media erase before it performs the daily backup. Any advice you ca...
I have Bkp Exec 10d installed on my main 2003 Server, with the SQL add-on. I have remote server and the Exchange add-on loaded on another server. I would like to use the tape drives on both servers for backups, I can see the tape drive on the main s...
I have a Microsoft Windows/Exchange 2003 server which I recently upgraded from BackupExec 10d to BackupExec 12.5. I did not want to lose my existing jobs, so I went from version 10d to 11d (which I had received a key for a long time ago but never us...
Moved to the v11d General Area
Hello, We are running 11.5D and when you click restore to select what files you want restored the server basically freezes up. Now if you give it some time (10 to 30 mins) it will finally load and you can select your files from you selection list. ...
