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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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Move BackupExec Server 10.x with a SQL 2000 backend

I need to move my BackupExec installation (apps, media, etc) to a new server. It is using a SQL 2000 backend which is hosted on another server and not moving. I found "How to uninstall and reinstall Backup Exec 10.x for Windows Servers and preserve...

exchange information store question

My question is, is there any way to protect my priv.edb from being accidentally overwritten by a restore?For example, I want to do a mailbox restore so I want to restore my priv.edb to a restore exchange server, but accidentally do not select "redire...

Backup exec followed symlink - backed up data twice

hello,Backing up a redhat 8.0 with unix agent installed.I have the following NFS export/exportIt's added to the exclude list in the agent.cfg filei had a user create a symlink in the home directory as such/home/user/export -> /exportThis caused /expo...

Restore messages from Exchange

Hi,We are using Backup Exec 8.6 to backup a remote Exchange 2000 server with the Exchange agent. Everything is fine.My question is can I restore messages to a pst file or the only way to restore is to restore in the user mailbox?Thank you.

Exchange Information Store Backup Hangs

Hi All, I have a W2K3 server running v 10.0 SP3 of Backup Exec for Windows. I am currently backing up 3 Exchange servers and until last week, was having great success. One day, I was running a total of 120 GB through to tape in about 1.5 hors and ...

Getting out the right media (tape)

HiWe store every daily written tape externally. Now, after a job has been finished it's difficult to get out the right tapes. In the logfile you don't really have a good overview of the used tapes.What is the best practice to figure out which tape wa...

Backup jobs get stuck 'running'

I am having a continual problem with my backup. Every several backups the job gets stucking 'running' at about 50%. Its so stuck, the only way to cancel the job is to stop the service. This happens every few days and can continue inexplicably until i...

Cleaning Tape doesn't return to designated cleaning slot

Hi, I'm using a Sony LIB-D81 with 8 slots. Sony's documentation states slot 8 should be the designated cleaning slot. In Backup Exec (10d) I assigned slot 8 as the cleaning slot and placed the cleaning tape in the appropriate slot. I leave the...

Error on request to write data

Frequently get the following error on tape BU jobs:________________________________________________________Storage device reported an error on a request to write data to mediaData Error: CRCCould be caused by either dirty tape, bad media, or a SCSI p...

Can not cancel job

class is active, status is queued, job type is inventory.the cancel option is whited out.How do I cancel this job?

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Job queued...

Here's my situation...I am running Veritas Backup Exec 10.0 rev 5520 on a Windows machineI have 5 external hard drives that I am wanting to use for backups each night of the week (i.e. one for Monday, one for Tuesday, etc...). I have been able to get...

Restore of mail stuck at 99%

Hi,We are running Veritas 9.1 rev 4691.I am trying to restore a couple of emails to a user's inbox, but the restore job is getting stuck at 99%.I've tried twice today for two different users. The first time, the restore job stuck at 99% but the mails...

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Backup Issue

Hello everyone. I have a question. We use an OVERLAND backup device that utilizes LTO tapes. We load the the tape unit with approximately 10 tapes. We have two(2) backups that we run nightly. The first one runs at 9:00 pm and does an "Overwite", the ...

Inability to Catalog in order to restore

I currently backup to a NAS for onsite backup and then (subsequently) copy the .bkf file (using Veritas Backup Exec) to a portable Iomega REV disk for off-site backup.I find that this results in:a) Veritas Backup Exec generating new .bkf file numbers...

SMTP Notification suddenly stopped

I administer a range of 9.x and 10.x servers over various customers, all the media servers email the job logs to me after each backup completes/fails. As of Monday this week I have had no emails from any of the 9 media servers.Instantly I thought the...