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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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Backup Exec 9.0 'sa' account

I need to change the default 'sa' password. This is not the account I use with Backup Exec to connect to the media server. The only SQL software on this server comes from Backup Exec. How can I find and change the password to this account? When I...

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Remote Agent not working

Hello,The remote agent on our SQL server does not seem to be working. We use the AOFO and SQL agent for this server. Everything has been working fine until last night.I have tried to uninstall, reboot the server, re-install the agent, reboot the se...

tomfew by Level 2
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Adninistrator pasword does not work

I have a Windows Server 2003 with Exchange Server 2003. The software for backups is Veritas Backup Exec 9.1. When I try to make a backup of all the mail boxes I get a widow asking me to select a valid windows user and password. For backups, I´m u...

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Media Not Changing to Blue

I have tapes in a media set that have passed their overwrite protection period but they are not showing up as "blue", i.e. recyclable. I had two tapes show up properly, but this last week I should have had another 4 show up and they haven't. I g...

MikeF by Level 2
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Backup Exec 9.1 Error Teh handle is invalid

I keep getting this error..0x6 - The handle is invalidWe are running the followingBackup Exec 9.1 4691SBS 2003Exchange 2003Norton AVI tried searching support for this error.. But the search function lacks search features.. Or I am doing something ...

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Viewing media list in job log

Is it possible to view what meida is being used in the job log while the job is running. I've noticed you can't tell what media has been used until the job is completed.

Using Lotus Domino Server Agent

I recently updated BE from 9.1 to 10.0. All agents on the servers have been updated and for the most part everything is working. However, when backing up my Domino server, and trying to take advantage of the Domino agent installed on the media serv...

Backups failing before verify

Hi allseveral weird things going on, but first the background.Dell PowerEdge 6550 running NT SP6BackupExec 8.6Quamtum Dlt 35/75 GB DriveEverything was working great up until the beginning of this week. I came in monday morning and suddenly it was ask...

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Unable to initialize remote agent - but it IS there !!

Running on Win2003SBS, jobs report unable to initialize remote agent on one of our workstations. This workstation does have remote agent installed and the service is running.If I check the workstation properties from the backup selections browser, i...

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Cancel job takes long time

Why, when I manually cancel a job (usually in the pre processing stage) does it take 3-14 minutes to cancel and return control back to me?Just curious

BE 9.1 w/ Dell PowerVault 136T - AutoExport?

Greetings,Dudes, I've got a Dell. I'm trying to automate the backups to allow an operator to simply open the Mailbox door of the PV136T and extract a six-tape magazine for transport to offsite vaults. It appears that the export function cannot be a...

Catalogs

I seem to be having some problems cataloging in older backup media in BU Exec 8.6.Also there seems to be missing several catalogs for daily backups from the past.Can I search the actual media that I assume the files to be restored are on?Also, once a...

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Exchange Mailbox Backup hangs on last Mailbox

We have this same issue with 9.1 (see Document ID: 266744 in knowledge base). We thought that upgrading to 10 would solve the problem. Well the issue still exists. Every night our backup job is hanging at the end of backing up the last mailbox. T...

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Semaphore

I'm running 8.60 BE fully updated and just recently replaced the drive. I'm getting semaphore timeout failures on new tapes. Any ideas?

Throughput Shenanigans

Hi,The Throupghput rate on our backup is varying between 80Mb and 40Mb with no obvious reason why. As there are two jobs set to run concurrently, this means that on occasion, the second job missed it's time window and doesn't run.Nothing has changed...

Backup Jobs failing

We have 4 backup jobs that run every night. Previously, we have not had any issues. Now, the first backup job runs and the remaining 3 fail with the error, insert overwritable or appendable media. These tapes have past there overwrite protection da...

IDR

How do I restore my 2003 domain controller and AD using IDR back to a different Hardware spec All I can find is http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/262134.htm which says hardware has to be identical