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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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PowerShell Event Viewer log full

It appears that when backup exec performs a backup of Exchange 2007, the PowerShell event viewer log becomes full and I have to clear it up. We are able to successfully backup Exchange 2007.  We are even able to restore  individual mail message and f...

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Multiple Drives & Interface Questions

Greetings, I am looking to see how others use multiple tape drives and network interface. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Scenario:Lets say you have two jobs that need to be run each night at the same time. There are two jobs - one for each dr...

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List of Bexec for Netware Error Codes

Is there anywhere on the Veritas support website that has a list of any/all error codes for Bexec for Netware 9.x? An error code with no further references is virtually useless. Thanks for any submitted answers. Jon

UDAF by Level 2
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Volume is currently unavailable. (-452)

My Friday full backup job completed with an error. All data had been backed up, and other then the following error, the job completed normally. The error is as follows:"Volume is currently unavailable. (-452)"I checked and all of my volumes are mount...

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Backup Exec 11d and Antivirus Issues

I am doing some research before we upgrade to Backup Exec 11d.  We do not use Symantec Antivirus products - we currently use Grisoft AVG.  Has anyone found any conflicts with this backup software and antivirus software?  Is there anything to be aware...

Backup Exec 9 / OFM - Need to re-install

I purchased Backup Exec v9 Open File Opt. some time ago, was working fine.  My problem is, my IT guy tells me that the software is toast and we need to re-install, however all I have is the Serial Number and my invoice.How do I get a new copy of this...

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Optimal drive cluster size for LAN backups?

What is recommended for cluster size when formatting a SATA harddrive in preparation for LAN/Offsite backups?We usually format the drives with the default size but wonder if there is something we need to change to increase the performance/speed of wr...

Backup Exec 11d and NSS6000 Linksys NAS

I'm currently in the process of planning the implementation of Backup Exec. We're trying to move away from being so dependent on tapes and towards disk bacup. We're looking at the Linksys 6000 NAS to store our backup media. The problem is that the Me...

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TestRun runs fine, but backup does not back anything up

I am running 10d SP3 on Windows 2003 SP2.  When I create the backup job to backup about 83Gb, the test run returns a byte count of 87,864,283,729.  However, when I run the actual backup job, the byte count is only 4,492 and nothing is backed up.  I'v...

A need to install from scratch

My BE11d installation is messed up. (Caused my name change on the machine, and lack of space on the disk)So I need a fresh start on another disk.The problem: The installation program sees that BE is already installed, and gives me the options of chan...

BE 11d Support for EMC Disk Library

Hi All.I about to replace my old L80 tape library with a new EMC Virtual Library (EDL210). I’m looking at BE’s HCL and even though the VTL is listed; only LTO1 drives are supported. This is rather disappointing because I was hopping to emulate newer ...

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Need recommendation for a new tape library...

Currently using Backup Exec 11d to do daily, weekly and monthly back up to hard drives on a Windows Server 2003 box. I would like to add a tape library to only back up the monthly and end of year jobs onto tapes. I have a Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI ...

Backup Exec 9.1 Catalog question

I have a server that is running fine now.  However I can see sometime in the future the catalog files under where Veritas is installed will slowly fill the drive.  My question is this: is there any way to clean these up without hampering restore capa...

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How to cancel a Back Up

Hi,I am trying to find a way to cancel a backup if someone forgets to change the tape for example.I think that I found a way in the setup options, via Source, Priority and Availability, where one can tell the job to abandon if it is not finished with...

SQL Backup with Backup exec

Hi We have Veritas Backup 10 Ver .(Windows 2003 EE in all the servers). I have some of the Questions can any body help me in this regard: 1.) Can we take a SQL Database backup with backup exec and restore it. We dont have license for sql agent.2.) If...

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Suddenly cant see any mailboxes to restore using GRT

Hi! We have been using the GRT technology to enable the restore of single mailboxes from the information store backup. I have been monitoring the restore selection list for a while and suddenly with no warning no mailboxes can be seen when browsing M...