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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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Resolved! Restoring Full backup to New Server

Hi ive been scouring these forums for a while looking for an answer to no avail. This is my scenario: Full backups are made nightly, copied to a USB hard drive during the day and taken offsite. Lets say our server burns down over night and all we hav...

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Tape restore after tape back up server rebuild

Our old system utilized tape backups with Veritas backup exec 9.1. Recently, I had to rebuild the server that back up exec was installed on.  Now with our new server load we are using Symanted Backup exec 11d. I cannot for the life of me figure out h...

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Attempt to release mutex not owned by caller.

After upgrading from Backup Exec 11 from to 12, my SQL 2005 servers keep giving me this error when I backup the servers: Event source: SQLVDIEvent computer: LNG-SRV-SQL03Event time: 01.07.2008 03:17:34Event type: 1Event ID: 1Event user: -Event text: ...

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Inventory Fails

Hi, I am running Backup Exec 11d on Windows Server 2003. Recently the inventories have been failing. When I check the job log afterwards I get: Slot 5 - Status: the device is busy and not yet ready to process a command, please check the device. I hav...

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Where is ralus.cfg

Hi We have changed IP subnet and off course the media server (v 12) is now not able to see the mac server running 11D agent for MAC.  As I can read in the administration guide we should change IP address in the ralus.cfg but where is it? RegardsJHR

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When are disk images overwritten?

This may be a dumb question, but I am a little puzzled.  We do disk to disk, then a duplicate disk to tape job is run on all our backups. I thought that the disk images and tapes have the same retention periods, but when I look to restore a file it s...

SMTP email notifications failed

I'm using Backup Exec 12 with all the current updates and service packs installed.  I have set up our backup jobs to notify me when it is completed and also configured the alerts to notify me whether the job has completed successfully or failed.  I'v...

Backup Exec freezes while scheduling backup job

Hi Folks, I have a fresh installation of Backup Exec 12 on a Windows 2003 server. After creating a new back up job, the Backup Job Properties window will disappear after clicking on "Run according to schedule", and Backup Exec will freeze. I have to ...

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BE12 pvlsvr consumes 100% CPU

Hello, we did a deinstallation of BE11, rebooted the Win2003 Server fully patched (windows updates...) and finallyinstalled BE12. After installation we rebooted the server again and installed all available updates viaLive Update. When the live update...

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How to Filter for Deleted Files Only

When building a restore job in my old backup software there used to be a symbol to identify files that have subsequently been deleted from the server.  I also used to be able to setup a filter to find all deleted files.  I cannot find either capabili...

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Backup only jpg's?

Can someone school me on how to back up only .jpg files? I had to split my backup into two jobs because including the jpg files would run me out of tape. So, I've excluded jpg files in my main backup and then want to create a 2nd job that I'll run du...

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SQL Icon/Options no longer listed................

I attempted to edit some existing SQL backups on 2 of my servers and I no longer can see the SQL icon or any possible way to add/remove/edit my SLQ jobs. I found this article that comes as close to explaining my issue, but it was no help: http://seer...

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Cannot unlock Tape Library from a CAS server

When selecting 'Unlock' from the Central Administration Server, the job runs but the tape library does not unlock. I have a CAS server with SSO enabled. The CAS server administers 3 other media servers which attach to 2 tape libraries via Fiber Chann...

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Exchange Server rebuild

OK, all was working great for five years untill MS forced me to reload exchange as a member instead of a DC (on an unrelated issue) or they wouldn't help at all (due to a policy change this March!) So, one win 2kSP4 DC (with the tape drive in it) & o...

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Monitoring many server notifications

We are a consulting company that uses Backup Exec at all of our clients, versions range from 8-11d.  We set the clients to send email notifications but it is difficult to manage all of them.  We currently are using Outlook with rules setup to sort th...

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Backup Exec Error

The Microsoft SQL Server virtual device interface (VDI) has failed to initialize.  This is often caused by not having a required SQL service pack or hot fix installed.  Running SQLExpress on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 requires service pack ...

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