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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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Job Log Display Error

We have BackupExec 9.1for Windows Servers. The problem we are getting is with opening Job logs....we are getting the following error; "One or more errors were encountered converting the job log into a web page for display. The job log will be displ...

Three different physical tapes, one Media GUID???

All,The threadtitle says it all, three tapes are identified as one. HP support points to Backup exec because the same symptoms occur on another server (also backup Exec) what indicates there's no problem with the streamers.The tapes are usable and do...

Tape Unit missing in Veritas config

We are working with a SBS2000 Server.Extrnal tapeunit (freecom DLTVS160)In windows my comupter hardware we can see the external tapeunit but in Veritas exec we cant see the tapeunit. We used Tools> Wizards >Device Wizard and the tape unit is reconise...

Afraid to install BEWS SP2!

Greetings all!I've been looking at past threads on SP2 problems and what I've read so far has made me feel very reluctant to install SP2 on my current BEWS 9.1 installation for fear of breaking things! I have found BEWS 9.1 to be very fragile and hav...

D2D Backups and Agents

All, I have a question about agents. I am testing a D2D backup strategy and am looking at the advanced open file agent and the advanced disk based agent. Which agent is the best to use? (if not both together) to achieve the most optimum way to do a D...

snapshot error using advanced open file

Dear ALL: When finishing backup job with exception, I checked the job log. the job status: completed with exception.the job log: OFO: Initialization failure on: "G:". Advanced open file option used: veritas volume snapshot provider (VSP). Snap...

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Backupexec for Windows - Taking too long

For some reason backup & verify of 29G data takes about 11 hours on our server. During the backup time we have less than 5% utility on the server and no users. Also, how do I know whether compression is turned on? I have a BENCHMARK DLT1/VS80 tape ...

Exchange 5.5 on Windows Server 2003

I installed the remote agent on the server but when I try to run the job to backup, it tells me access is denied. I do have the administrator and the backup user in the administrator group of the local machine and on the server itself. What can I d...

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Backups Stopped

The server suddenly stopped backing up files. When I open the software it asks for my login. No matter what log in I give it, I get a "The Backup Exec Server system service is not responding. The service is either not running or not installed."It ...

Remote Agent for Netware Server

What remote agent for netware server is compatible with Windows 2003 SBS. We are moving our remote agents over from a windows 2000 server to a windows 2003 small business server. We are using veritas 9.1. I was able to move all the remote agents o...

Exabyte VXA-1 1394 Tape Drive

Hi,I have a client who's been using an Exabyte VXA-1 1394 Tape Drive (firewire) on an Apple server. They've just switched to a Windows 2003-based server and want to use the Exabyte for tape backup. The new server has a firewire card, and device manag...

Problem installing Remote Agent CAL

The customer has a SBS2003 box, installed with BE SBS Premium v9.1 - License Upgrade. The application works ok.In addition, the customer has a win2k server box running as a file-server (member server). At this server we have problems with installing...

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Veritas 9.1 and IOMEGA REV disk

i have a customer using an IOMEGA REV disk to backup their data. they are using Veritas 9.1 as their backup software. The disks fill up and will not Overwrite. I have to manually delete files from the disk each month.I have another customer using Ver...

BE 10.0 and Windows XP (SP2)

I am having great problems backing up my WXPSP2 machines using the Remote Agent. I have read and followed instructions on white papers regarding installation and configuration but still i cannot lon onto the XP machine. If anyone can offer any sugg...

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Block Size and backup speeds

Hello,I recently installed a DLT tape drive (HP Surestore VS80) to replace my Dat 20/40 drive b/c I needed the higher capacity. When I first installed the new drive, my backups took an minimum of 15 - 20 hours to complete (had about 30 gigs of data)...

Cannot backup system state on a 2003 server.

I have a Windows 2003 server which is in a DMZ. I have made the required changes in the firewall and have pushed a remote agent to the server. When I setup a user defined selection to it, I see shadow copy components but when I click on it, it says...

Error Handling "Retry JOB"

When you set error handling to "retry" a job does that mean it will start the job from the beginning or try to continue where the job had the error. I get a lot of CRC errors in the verify pass. If I verify the tapes on a differnt drive everything go...

Barcode Label Problem

I have a Dell PowerVault 136T with 4 LTO1 drives. I've been using Veritas Backup Exec for years now and haven't had to many problems that I couldn't figure out. But this one has me stumped. I'm currently running 9.1 at the latest rev.The library has ...

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Deleting the temp OFO File

I'm sure I already know the answer to this but is there a way to delete the temp OFO File without rebooting the server? I stopped the remote agent service and all anti-virus services and it still says the file is in use. I can't reboot the server bec...