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...
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...
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...
I would like to excluded a specific folder that is currently being backed up using NDMP using the below picture "Included/Exclude" option. But from what I have read this might not be possible. Could this please validated? Thanks, Bob
I am curious about something: Our organization backs our whole system up to a large dedupe volume hosted on the Backup Exec server. We have also been running a separate job that creates another separate full system backup to external disk media for a...
I have BE 2014 and I'm backing up data to disk. I have full backup running every friday and incremental backup running monday to thursday. I have configured to keep full backups for 4 weeks and incrementals for 1 week. I'm unsure should I keep more i...
My backups are currenly presenting me with this exception: "Database is configured to maintain transaction logs. Transaction log backups are not being performed" - I have read this: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TEC...
Hi, I am in the process of swapping out an old fileserver with a new one. The old server is almost full, its out of warranty so its about time I did something. The old server is running Windows 2003 Server on a HP DL360 G2 ( or something close)....
I have Backup Exec 2014 with latest updates. BE is installed to Hyper-V 2012 host and I'm backing up the host and all the virtual machines running. Backups run fine but I'm getting this error every time in log "Backup Exec was unable to authenticat...
Hi, Our email backup job on our Backup Exec 2012 system has been failing for the last week. The software is up to date. Here is the errors from the job log: V-79-57344-65233 - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "Microsoft Information St...
Hello, This is more of a Backup Exec functionality question however: Given the following (all located in different locations): A: Windows 2008 R2 running Backup Exec 2014 B: QNAP NAS hosting Windows Shared Folders C: QNAP NAS hosting Windows Sha...
We were running BE 2012 up until a month ago. We had a few technical issues and were told we should upgrade to 2014. We did the upgrade but during the upgrade the 2012 licenses were not being counted properly (i.e. it doesn't match what we purch...
Where are the exact limit for enabling GRT backup/restore within an VMware environment? Symantec documents tell me use anything below 2TB. I´ve created a VMDK with (vCenter told me) 1,99902344 TB capacity. Windows Server 2012 R2 disk manager repor...
I got 6 monthly backup jobs scheduled to run on the weekend, they backup to the same tape. One ran successfully to tape. The rest failed with below error. For those 5 failed jobs, the elapsed time showed they ran for at least 7 minutes, at least...
Hi, We virtualized our Exchange server over the weekend and our backup rate went from 2.5GB / sec to 400MB / sec. Our Exchange server is just under 300GB. We use BackupExec 2012 to an LTO 4 tape drive. Our backup to tape when Exchange was on a physic...
When I perform a scheduled backup in BE2012 I'm getting an prompt to click ok before it overwrites media (image01) I think I have found the option to disable it (Configuration & Settings, Alerts and Notifications, Alert Categories, Media Overwrite) ...
Hi, I have the following config: Backup exec 2012 on windows, Oracle rac 11g on linux, 2 nodes. The archive logs are stored on each cluster node (if storagebox fails, I will need these). However, as soon as archivelogs are selected, backup immedia...
Hi all, i have upgradet my old 12.5 BE Server to BE2010. Lets called this server BE-2 We have an other BE2010 in an other location. Let's called this one BE-1 So i run a backup job on BE-1to backup the the BE-2 catalogs. Now aftret I have update...
Hi, I cannot convert a Windows Server 2012 or 2008R2 to a virtual machine. The option is grayed! For my other Windows server 2008 machines the convertion to VM Work normaly. Can someone help please. Thanks.
I have Backup Exec 2012 installed on Windows 2008 Server. Now, I am going to upgrade to Backup Exec 2014. What are the steps I have to follow? What is the difference between migration and upgrade? Please suggest me..
Hi all Just joined the forum as I'm about to purchase Symantec Backup Exec and I was told I need to also purchase an agent that will backup the two virtual servers that will be running across two DL380 servers. I have two questions that I hope you ...
Having an issue with licensing on my new install of Backup Exec 2014. We have purchased the correct licensing and I have it installed on the media server as seen here: But when I go to check on the licensing, it shows the following: Two questi...
I am trying to do specific backups of our Exchange 2010 databases and having issues. We have 2 Exchange servers running in a DAG and are built as VMware virtual servers, hosted on VMware ESXi v5.1.0. We have the VRay for VMware licensing installed, a...
