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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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tape password protection question

How secure is the password protection option in Backup Exec 9.1? I understand that only the catalog is protected, and the Veritas support site states:-"If the password is misplaced, the data on the tape will be irretrievable by Backup Exec, without e...

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What do I need to back up Remote Servers

We are currently running Backup Exec V9.1 on a single server. We are running a Windows 2000 domain. I want to be able to back up some remote servers. I've tried going through the product information, but I get confused as to what exactly I need. I ...

LOADING MEDIA? PLEASE HELP!!!!

Since installing Backup Exec 9.1 from a previous version on to SBS2003 (clean install), I put a new tape in and tell it to run the job, but it just states "loading media" and will do for unlimited hours, even though the tape in in. It worked fine on ...

Backup Exec and Two Domains.

Here is my situation.I have two domains which are not physicaly connected.And I need to backup both of my file servers.So I plug a second network card on my backup exec server and physicaly connect it to the second domain.When I try to access the sec...

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Change of Account for Backup

Hello allI run Veritas 9.1 on a Windows 2000 server which backs up around 180 Gb every night. Since I started we have been using the domain adamin account to do the backup. Now I need to chnage this to a backup account. I have changed this within ba...

Backup Exchange from another domain

Hi. I'm trying to backup Exchange mailboxes from another domain. Both domains are on the same subnet, so they are reachable. Normal data is backed up fine. However, Exchange mailboxes keeps coming with "Unable to attach" message. Userid's and passwor...

v10 AOFO and Remote Agent licensing

Sorry for stupid question.Can somebody clarify: to protect remote W2k3 server I need to buy Agent AND OFO licenses or only OFO license (I've heard it includes license for Agent)?

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Bex 10 IDR wizard problem

HiI upgraded a testserver from 9.1 to 10.0The server is a win2000 sp4 and has a standalone DLT drive.When I run the IDR wizard and gives a alternative path to the IDR info "c:\idr" in this case the wizard closes wo any warning.When I restart B Exec ...

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Final error category: Security Errors

Hello folks,Maybe someone has come across this problem before - I searched but could not find a similar problemFrom BE log:Completed status: FailedFinal error: 0xa0008488 - Access is denied.Final error category: Security Errors(and then there are 100...

Compression (or lack of it) backing up to Sony AIT3

I cannot seem to get any compression on backups using Backup Exec 9.1 to Sony AIT3 drives (I have 2 of them).Both drives give me 100Gb per tape and Backup Exec shows the compression ratio is 1:1.The Properies of the devices show that compression is e...

Current Jobs and Job List blank after reboot

Hi.After a reboot of the Backup Exec server the list of Current Jobs and the Job Definition list went blank.The jobs are still there and they continue to run when sceduled. I am not able to edit any jobs. The selection lists does show.When a job bec...

Backups and media

Hi,When you perform a backup it will create a catalog where it says "media created (tape name)" in here you can select what you want to restore or to backup again. (you can make a selection)Once in a while I see jobs that have backupped a large amou...

Restore Exchange mailbox

Hello Newsgroup,my scenario is an exchange 2000 Server on Windows 2000. Backup Exec Version is 9.1.My problem is, that after restoring outlook tasks in a existing mailbox every existing task will be duplicated. This phenomen is also when restoring ca...

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DVD-RW

I just downloaded the evaluation ver. 10 Backup Exec for Windows Servers. It will not recognize my Sony DVD-RW. I was told bt the people at Veritas it would. The DVD-RW is a model DRX-510UL. Any help here would be great. We are in the evaluation...

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HP DAT 72 drive gets no compression on backup

Hi,I've just upgraded to version 10 and have the same problem existing from version 9 and 9.1. I have a HP DAT drive and the tapes are only coming up as having 33 GB available and a compression ratio of around 0.926:1. Becuase of this I can't get a...

Restore from Western Digital External Hard Drive

I backed up my server to a Western Digital External Hard Drive. When I use the IDR to restore the server, the server is unable the date on the external hard drive.Has anyone encountered this, and how can I fix it. I am assuming that the external ha...

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Installing Exchange Remote Agent on New Server

Hello--We just went through a migration and need to install the BEWS remote agent for Exchange Servers on our new Exchange Server. Just prior to the migration, we installed the agent to our (former) Exchange server.We have decommissioned our former E...

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