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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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False media alert

I am trying a restore and an alert keeps coming up "Please remove the media from the drive", even though there is no media in the drive. My nightly backup works fine so the hardware is fine. Does anyone have an idea what is wrong?

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Netware SMS

We just added a new Novell 6.5 server.It was installed using TCP/IP onlyWe backup through a Windows 2000 server with BE 9.1I tried to get the server to show through the Netware SMS icon, and lost all the other Novell servers that were already listed....

Backup a 2nd Exchange Srvr in the same site?

I'm running Exch and Windows 2003. Last week I installed a new Exch server into the same site. I've installed the remote agent on it. However I am unable to see mailboxes on that server. I have moved my mailbox to it. Firstly, where should I see...

Dan by Level 3
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Backup AOFO Store...

I am fully backing up a windows 2000 server. The "C" drive is only 2 GIG, and the temporary Backup AOFO Store directory has become too large when a backup is executing. The "E" drive raid is 200 GB, and the temporary snapshot file it creates is bri...

All tapes identified as cleaning media in 8.6

hi,for 2 days all media are identified as cleaning media. So restores and Backups aren't possible anymore. There were no changes made in the config. No tapes were changed. Does anybody know about this problem and how i can fix it?Thanks in advance

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Backup fails : 0xa0008488 - Access is denied.

Hi all,I have kind of a weird problem. Every day my backup fails with the message 0xa0008488 - Access is denied.It is everyday on some mailboxes that the error is generated.I am running Backup Exec 9.1 on a Windows 2003 server as well as the exchang...

Job Queued

Ok, went from LTO 100/200Gb to 200/400Gb tapes and now the backup job goes into a "queued" state when it starts. The drive is an Exabyte 110L and is accepts these tapes. A couple of times, the job started backing up to the new tapes but died at 90Gb....

open file,remote agent, idr installation

hi!My question is, if i'm installing 10 copies of open files, remote agents and idr on 10 servers, can i key in the licenses for these 10 servers at the same time during installation of backup exec on the media server? or i need to key in the license...

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How can I turn off AOFO?

We did not purchase AOFO but the person who installed it in Eval mode turned that feature on... Now my jobs are trying to use AOFO and I can't turn it off because those fields are greyed out in the job definitions.

Problem with Remote Selections

I'm trying to create a new backup job, but when I go to User-defined Selections the shares on one of my remote servers are grayed out. If I reboot the remote server I'm able to make those selections, but the next time I check they're grayed out again...

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Low Compression Ratio 1.06:1 Why?!

I have 20/40 gig tapes but the backup job halts at 21 gigs... I still have 19 more to go... and I'm just backing up traditional data.... Any idea why the compression ratio is so low? Any help would be appreciated thanks.I have it set to use Hardware...

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restore of backup to disk file

Hi All,I have a backup to disk file which i have managed to restore. The file now has an extension of '.bkf' and i would like to extract a particular file from it. I have created a new backup to disk folder to bring the file '.bkf' into backup exe...

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disable/enable a network port programatically

Trying to ascertain how to disable/enable a network port programatically to coincide with a Backup Exec subroutine of server in different subnet than that subnet of the 2003 server. Thoughts?

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Unable to Initialize remote agent AND Open file question

I purchased 2 licenses / have one serial number. I'm not sure if this is part of the problem or not but I'm getting unable to initialize agent errors--- on a machine where I manually installed the agent running aa(something).exe Any suggestion wo...

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Authentication fails when attempting to reach a server

I have been trying to get another server added to our daily backup. I have installed the remote client on the server and have verified that it is listening on port 10000 (netstat -a) and that no other services are using that port and that the service...

Sony AIT USB Drive

I know at the moment the Sony AIT USB drive is not compatible, but is there an update comming out soon for it? If there is when is it expected?

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Question about SQL agent

Hi, When BE is backing up my SQL server I see the following event log informationEvent Type:InformationEvent Source:MSSQLSERVEREvent Category:(2)Event ID:17055Date:2/2/2005Time:6:03:53 AMUser:ComputerDescription:3454 :Recovery is checkpointing datab...

ADAMM user account

Can someone from Veritas verify the use of the ADAMM account to respond to alerts in Backup Exec 9.1 is a built in feature? We are trying to account for all the accounts used on the veritas logs and alerts..Thanks,Kevin

Using SQL Server to Query Backup Exec Database

I was going through the threads and noticed that the database for Backup Exec is MSDE based. I was wondering is there a way to have a Local SQL server query the database instance for Backup Exec. To find out for example Tape Allocated Date, Overwrit...

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