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Backup Exec 22.2 - BETA Program registration is open

We are recruiting for our exclusive BETA Program for Veritas Backup Exec 22.2, and we hope that you will consider joining. The program is tentatively planned to start May 29 and run through June 19, 2023. The actual time commitment that we would requ...

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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 tapes to slot after backup finishes

We have a dual library with 2 separate jobs. Job 1 backs up 3 servers to drive 1, Job 2 backs up another 3 servers and to drive 2. What I would like to do is once the backup's complete is move the tapes to corresponding slots e.g once Job 1 finishes...

Backup Exec Disk Storage with multiple backups

Cannot identify the backups files I need to restore!   Environment: Backup Exec 2012 - Fully patched. 3TB backup drive used for the backups destinations 5 Servers are backing up to this disk storage overnight and during the day this is backed up...

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Resolved! backing up shared folders quandary

Hi, I just upgraded to BE 2014 and pretty much having to go through and recreate all the backup jobs.  My quandary is the shared folders.  the shared folders are either on the C:\ or D:\ E:\ .  if I backup these entire dives, do I really need to als...

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job history filters not working BE2014

I have 2 Windows 2014 servers running BE2014.  The job history filters on one works fine, but not on the other.  On the one that doesn't work right, when I put in a date range, the job history still shows dates prior to the beginning date I have ente...

rivdog by Level 3
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Resolved! Firewall Port Settings on BE2014

Hello, I'm tyring to figure out which ports need to be open on a backup agent located behind a firewall.  Per an older symantec document: Backup Exec agent browser uses 6101 Backup Exec Remote Agent uses 6103 Backup Exec Remote Agent for Windows ...

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delayed catalog Job GRT Exchange!

Hi, I am running a backup to disk duplicate to tape strategy on Exchange 2007 with backup exec 2014 SP2 After every Backup Job on the disk the catalog job starts, this job takes much longer then the backup itself and it looks like that it always ru...

How to change date format in Backup Exec

Hi, we have Backup Exec server 2014 SP1 installed on a Windows Server (Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1). We found the date format shown in BE is mm/dd/yyyy. In the server OS, the date format is dd/mm/yyyy. My question is: How to change date format in BE ...

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Resolved! Backing up From Exchange Server with Backup Exec 2010 R3

Hi Guys, there is a question about backing up from Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Group with Backup Exec 2010 R3! I have a backup server that I installed BE2010 R3 SP4 on it, that its OS is Windows Server 2008, In other side, I have a Mi...

Resolved! Backing up Backup Exec Dedup Storage Folder

I have BE 2012 installed and it's using disk storage (nas connected via iscsi) with dedup enabled (data stored in D:\BackupExecDeduplicationStorageFolder). I'm planning to completely uninstall this BE 2012 and free up that space used for backups. But...

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Trouble with backup Virtual Machine.

Hi All. I use SBE 2014 as trial version. on Windows 2008 x64 R2 I can't create backup my virtual machine on VMware ESX-4.1 Error: Final error: 0xe0009585 - Unable to open a virtual disk system. Backup - VMVCB::\\srv-vps\VCGuestVm\(DC)ha-datace...

Resolved! Physical Volume Drive not found

I am using BE 2012 to take backups on IBM DAT 72 DIGITAL DATA STORAGE for taking backups. Recently the backup failed giving error message "The Job failed with the following error: Physical Volume Library Drive not available". There are no amber indic...

Resolved! Unable to backup linux server with selection root

Hi  I am trying to backup a linux server (physical) using the remote agent for linux for BE 2104. The backup fails with error that it cannot backup / or sub directories and it then lists some file systems (/etc /lib /media etc). I am using the root ...

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Resolved! Server side deduplication option

I have a Backup Exec 2014 server setup.  I have a dedupe volume created as well.  I have added my vcenter host and I am backing up a test VM with SQL on it. In the best practice for deduplication it states that I should make sure that server side de...

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Resolved! cannot input key and still license trial

Dear, i have some problem with symantec backup exec 2012 install in windows server 2008, can't input license key. if i input license key occur information " this trial copy Symantec Backup Exec has enabled many options that must be purchase as sepa...

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Resolved! How to migrate BE 2014 (w/CASO) to a different named server?

Is it possible to get confirmation that this is the correct process to use for BE 2014 also? http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH67296 The article's supported products do NOT include BE 2014, so I am hestiant to follo...

How to uninstall Backup Exec 2012

Hi everyone ! On a Windows 2008 Server R2, vCenter Server (a component of VMware vSphere) has been installed with SQL Server 2008 Express (for vCenter database). On this same server, I installed later Backup Exec 2012 on a SQL instance created by S...

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Resolved! Installing BE 2014 on a Citrix Xen-Center Server

Is it possible to Install Backup Exec on a Xen-Center server? We run Xen Center with 3 VM's. This server is our most powerful server so it makes sense. I know that since it is a Windows VM it's still Linux based because of Xen-Center. Please correct...

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Resolved! Difference between BEData folder and BExec B2D Folder

I have a backup job that is stored in disk storage. I have a folder called BEData and BEXEC B2D. I was not sure what the difference between these two folders are. Both folders hav config files, BKF files, and IMG files. I am using BExec2014. I was us...

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