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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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how would I perform the following scenario under 10

I would like to perform the following: I want to backup to DISK (BTD) in the evening and then push this data to tape (duplicate) 48 hours later!I looked at policies BUT the 'duplicate' policy only allows you to specific a time range to start, not 'xy...

IDR Restore

I have created a bootable CD Image, supplying the OS disk from Windows SBS 2003 Premium, when creating. Version of Veritas: 9.1.4691 with SP1.When I boot on the CD, I press Enter to continue, and F2 to use ASR Advanced System Recovery. Then it load a...

Re-inserting tape magazine takes library offline

I'm having the following issue with a HP MSL5030 Tape Library.When I physically remove the magazine from the library, replace the tapes and re-insert the magazine, and run an inventory Veritas takes the library and drives 'Offline'. If I stop and res...

Service terminated unexpectedly

Backup Exec 9.1 on Windows 2000.During a backup, sometimes at the beginning, sometimes near the end, the service terminates.Event viewer says this: The Backup Exec Remote Agent for Windows Servers service terminated unexpectedly. The backup job then ...

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Throughput Slowed down after 12/31/04

Our throughput for all the backup jobs slowed down atleast 100mb/pm. We run backup exec 9.1 on windows 2000 Server. Also, the errors started to come up. failed to query the writer status. I checked the knowledge board but it only tells you about wind...

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Removable Disk Backup Easier?

Many of our clients have moved away from tape backups because of their (perceived) unreliability. One client likes to use External USB Hard Drives. He has three 120 GB HDD's and about 60 GB of data on two servers. With BE 9.1, we tried setting up ...

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Backing thru firewalls easier with 10.0?

I'm one who made it through the guantlet of figuring out how to get BE to backup servers in a DMZ through a firewall. During that stressful experience, I was told that 10.0 would make the job easier and no customizations to BE or holes in firewalls...

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New Jobs / Modified jobs

When I try to create a new job or modify an existing job after I press the submit button Veritas terminates and closes. When I reopen Veritas the job is not created or the existing job is not modified

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Where did the automatic cancellation option go???

In Backupexec 9.1 there was a setting to automaticly cancel a backupjob after a period of time.Were is it in Backupexec 10???? The help file says its only available for restore and utility jobs.Is there any other way to set this??I've found this sett...

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Network Backup Error

The connection to target system has been lost. Backup set canceled.The connection to target system has been lost. Backup set canceled.A communications failure occurred on the backup deviceA communications failure occurred on the backup deviceThe abov...

How can I stop continual Tape Alerts to clean drive?

I provide Remote Systems Administration for a number of customers.One of my customers runs Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 on a Windows 2000 Small Business Server. Backup jobs run overnight and are set to eject the tape on completion. Recently, my customer...

Moderated support forum ?

HelloHow it is possible to make news client work with your new moderated support forums. What setting should I put for news servers. With server news.support.veritas.com I can't get new newsgroups.RegardsRoman Lenarsic

Compression ratios reported as too high

Hello,One of my jobs repeatedly reports ridiculously high compression rates of aroung 50:1 to as high as 75:1.I'm backing up to a 150gb DLT1.The backup seems to have run ok other than that.No errors reported and I can restore successfully.I've just r...

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IDR wizard - language problem

Hello.I try to run the wizard for IDR, on version 9.1 on a SBS 2003 Premium server. After I select to use bootable CD for image creation, and I press next, then I get a message saying "Language was not determined from \\SERVER1 The specified resource...

New RALUS Agent on Solaris 9

I have recently upgraded our system from 9.1 to 10 and all went smoothly. (I am hoping v10 will iron out a couple of persistent issues - just maybe!)However, I have left our Solaris servers using the old agent as a test upgrade on one Solaris server ...

Agent version compatibility

I know the old v9.1 agents aren't compatible with a 10 server however are the v10 agents compatible with a 9.1 server?Because we use the open file option and an agent upgrade necessitates a re-boot I'm going to find it dificult to schedule upgrades a...