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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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Resolved! How to backup files in USB drive ?

Hello ! I'm new in my company and I have never used Symantec Backup Exec 2012 before. One of my mate ask to me to restore a folder from a backup of a few days. I dont want to substitute the current folder but put the restored folder in USB Flash Dr...

Weekly backups failing

Hi All   For the past few weeks my weekly backups are failing and nothing has been changed. The error i rceive after failing is : V-79-57344-65055 - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "Active Directory Application Mode\ADAM Instance ( VMwareVCMSDS )"...

Mboni by Level 3
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Backup Exec 14.1 failed backups when tape full

Hi all,  I'm running Backup Exec 14.1 on Windows 2008 Server 64bit and have a problem with backups failing. When the tape is full, the backup task was failed to backup, can't overwrite the tape. In the Sysmantec setting I config the backup task is ...

Resolved! Reuse old Catalog folder and backup folders

How to reuse old Catalog folder and .bkf files of BE 2010 in BE2014 ? I backup Catalog folder and removed BE2010 on MMS completely. And then reinstall BE2014 on MMS. How to reuse catalog in BE2015 ? And how to reuse the .bkf files in backup folders...

SymQNA by Level 5
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Resolved! Upgrade of Windows Server from 2003 to 2008

Our client is running a BE ver 12.5 on a Windows Server 2003 and they are planning to upgrade on Windews Server 2008. I believe that BE ver 12.5 also supports Windows Server 2008 and our client is reconsidering to upgrade their BE to the latest vers...

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Resolved! Storage issue on BE2015

In BE2015, to create a Storage, seems it must be set to a volume , like D:\, E:\ drive, cannot be set to a folder path like d:\Backup-Full, or d:\Backup-Diff.  Does it mean we can only create two volume to backup Full and Diff data,  cannot use two f...

SymQNA by Level 5
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Resolved! Allow Backup Exec to establish a trust with the servers

When installing and adding linux agent and windows agent,what BE will do on the linux agent and windows agent and BE CAS by selecting the option "Allow Backup Exec to establish a trust with the servers" ? Thanks

SymQNA by Level 5
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Backup Exec 2014 - Checkpoint Restart, restarts whole job

Hey Guys, We have been having trouble with backups being interrupted for very brief periods of time usually right at the end of the backup. < 5 mins for it to restart. When it restarts, it starts from the beginning of the backup. This is quite annoy...

Burnside by Level 3
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Resolved! SSMS Database Node Refresh causes Restore to Fail

I have confirmed via testing that clicking on the refresh icon (one or more times) for the database node of a SQL Server instance being observed in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS 2012) causes a Symantec Backup Exec database restore to fail. When ...

JWimMN by Level 2
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Resolved! choose specific network for VMWare snapshot?

Our VM guy is asking if there is a way we can segregate the agentless backups from the production network. I may be losing it here but I don't see how I can set that from the Symantec side; I - of course - can pick my own nic but is is possible to pi...

Resolved! Best solution to back up Citrix Xen Server

Hello, I am wondering what the best solution would be for the following:   I have on Citrix Xen Server host that has 7 virtual machines on it.  I am currently using PHD Virtual to back this up to a NAS.  I am looking to move to different software ...

BEX 2014 - Catalog tasks fail to complete

Hello, from a week every catalog tasks I performed on a QNAP NAS fail with this error: Final error: 0xe000e006 - A backup storage read/write error has occurred. If the storage is tape based, this is usually caused by dirty read/write heads in the ...

Slow AVVI performance with SAN transport

Symantec,   Could someone plesae point me in the right direction.  I have the following: Dell Equallogic arrays in R10 configu with 24x10k spindles each (so they're not slow) Dell Poweredge R720xd with 24 spindles of 10k drives in R10 (so once ag...

RDX drive issue

Please find the below specification as we have in our environment. Windows Server 2008 R2 Backup Exec 2012 RDX drive & Cortridges USB KVM Switch I have some concern related backup exec & Storage. Backup is not target to storage untilled we remove ...

Resolved! Server Failure - Restore to a Temporary Server

Dear , I want your support to product our work invironment   Tape Drive IP address: 192.168.1.253 Server : WIndows server 2008 R2 - 192.168.1.3 Temporary Server : Windows Server 2008 R2 - 192.168.1.4 I am using a tape drive to have full backup ...

Irshath by Level 2
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Symantec backup exec 2014 trial Version

Hi,   I want to check the product benefits so i installed trial version in my windows 7 system. after sucessful installation. it asking for username and password. i did not set anything. can anyone advised me?

BE 12.5 - System State job perpetually queued

Hello all, I have a BackupExec 12.5 (rev 2213) install on a customer's site, and we have a System State job that, after starting, never leaves the Queued state, even after several hundred hours. The job never appears to move any data - it just sits ...

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Deduplication Option for BE2014 - 64 TB Limit?

Hi All, I've read the following KB article - http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO99113 From it I'm infering that there's a 64 TB limit on the deduplication folder in BE2014. Can someone confirm this? Is there any word on what the limit might be in B...

Renaming Tape Drive

Hi, after a fresh install of Backup Exec 2014 SP2 installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 I try to rename the tape drive. When I click on "Apply" I get the error:   An error has ocurred because the server has received incorrect or invalid data. The s...