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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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rdmchugh by Level 1
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Media Descriptions not displayed

Hi All, It seems in the upgrade from 10d to 11d we have lost media descriptions, as per Document ID: 289399.I was hoping media labels might be configurable & could be used instead without any luck.Does anyone have a workaround for this issue ? Thanks...

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Resolved! Laptop Backup Best Practice

I have quite a few laptops need to be backed up every night. But the fact is the laptops are not at the office every night. And I don't know which one is going to be at the office. I set up a backup schedule to back up all laptops at each night. But ...

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Remote Agent License

I'm wondering if I need a remote agent license for a server that has Backup Exec 11d installed on it and is acting as a media server?  The server is a NAS that backs up data from its HD onto tape.I'm not getting any error messages in the job log sayi...

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Simple Question But I Want to be Sure - Differentials

 I have been doing full daily backups for years, but as the data has grown, I was thinking of going to differential backups. I pretty much understand how it works and I am about to start testing this weekend with it, but my question is, if I do "full...

Backup to disk folder on Dell RD1000 doesn't overwrite

I am using a external USB version of the Dell RD1000 backup device.  I created a backup to disk job to go to this removable device.  Everything works, and we rotate the cartridges daily, however, it continues to create new jobs until it is full, and ...

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Remote Agent on Itanium Cluster

I installed the remote agent on a new Itanium SQL cluster and received the error documented in the following article: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/287870.htm  However, the suggested fix does not work. The new agent directory (RAWSIA64) no...

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Make B2D/removable devices emulate tape drives

Rewrite the B2D on Removeable Devices code so that they emulate tape drives and will accept any compatible "media"That is, allow physical Disk1, Disk2, Disk3, etc to be mounted on one drive letter.  Inventory, Catalog, and away you go Requiring that ...

Backup fails saying it couldn't access the remote agent.

Howdy,Recently, a backup job that had been completing fine started failing with this error:0xe000846b - The resource could not be backed up because an error occurred while connecting to the Backup Exec for Windows Servers Remote Agent.Nothing has cha...

Job Setup Confusion

I have an interesting setup on my jobs. I have 5 weeks (Mon-Fri week 1, Mon-Fri week 2, etc) of jobs that are setup. I went in this morning to add 2008 to the schedule and have noticed something disturbing.I took Mon Week 1, and added the dates (3/3,...

Tape Backup Very SLOW

I am evaluating 11d and have concerns about tape drive performance.  I have a Tandberg 820LTO (LTO3) drive that takes 36 hours to backup 131GB.  This averages out to about 115MB per minute.  The drive is running the latest firmware and BE is running ...

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Slots in repartition not showing up correctly

I had to repartition my Autoloader to take into account a larger backup than single tape allows for. So I reparitioned my 8 drives so instead of 1 being P1 and 2-8 being P2 it's now 1-2 as P1 and 3-8 as P2. Problem is slot #2 is still showing under t...

Jobs not completing after tape eject

I've noticed an issue that presented itself initially 4 weeks ago on one of our 2 installations of BE 10.0.  This installation is on a NAS w/ a Powervault 122T directly attached. I went to swap out one of the tapes this morning (done once a week), hi...

GRT redirected restore produces multiple emails

I have a been asked to restore all the email for the last 6 months for an employee.  In doing so, I'm redirecting the email to an new mailbox.  The restore works, but after the second restore I have 2 copies of an email & and after 3 restores, I have...

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Backup Exec 9.1 Cluster server upgrade to 11d

Dear Expert, We are planning to upgrade our backup exec cluster server from 9.1 to 11d. Is that any procedure that we need to follow. Such as upgrade the 1st node then the second node or shutdown the Backup Exec services before upgrade...Pls advise

Agent for Microsoft DPM

I have installed Backup Exec 11d Media Server on a Windows 2003 Server. I then installed RAWS onto a Windows 2003 server which has Microsoft DPM 2007 installed. When I open the remote agent in the Backup Exec Management Console and expand the DPM age...

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SQL and Exchange backup practices

Hi All, This will sound very noob, but.... when backing up, for example, an SQL server, should I be doubling up and backing up the .mdf and .ldf files as well as using the SQL agent to backup the databases. Similarly with Exchange, should I be backin...

Backup Device Errors

Anyone please help!  We keep on receiving this type of error. Error category    : Backup Device ErrorsError             : e00084ee - An invalid command was sent to the storage device.For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-...

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Totally confused on Backup Exec installation

I received Backup Exec and several different licenses for, initially, two servers. However, I am at a loss as to what needs to be installed where... and the 1600 page admin guide only made it worse. I have two servers plus a domain controller. My thi...

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