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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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Backups Failing with no errors

HelloWe have BackupExec 8.60 Rev. 3808 running on a Windows 2000 machine with service pack 4 installed. We have been doing backups regularly for about a year and a half without problems. We have made the change to the registry for .pst files not to...

Intermittent Job Failures w/Robotic Library

Hello, all!Great to be here in the new support forums. I almost split my side with joy when I saw this option was now available. Together, we are all smarter than just ourselves.Anyway, here is the dilemma: A legal document processing company I wo...

Consistent Backup Job Failures on Dell PowerEdge 1500

Hello, all!Let me first say that I am incredibly happy that Veritas has launched a community-based support service. Their original support architecture leaves much to be desired.With that out of the way, this is my issue:I run and maintain a server ...

Long delay when unable to attach to drive

I have a selection list that contains about 12 laptop systems. Not all laptops are always connected to the network when the backup runs. My problems is that it takes BUexec anywhere from 20-30 minutes to timeout and skip a disconnected system when ...

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Cannot Backup to rotating set of external usb disks

I have 4 huge external usb disks and want to rotate them on a weekly scheme: monday to friday with differential backup (appended), saturday full backup (appended). Monday morning change the usb hard disk (the new drive has the same drive letter G: )....

Job History Vanished

Came in this morning to find the job history has vanished from the job monitor tab of the console. However any new jobs i run show in the history. What happened?

Veritas 9.1 Job engine shutting down

I am running Veritas 9.1 on a NAS Windows 2003 server that worked flawlessly for several months and then while changing some tapes, the database became corrupt. This required reloading BE and since then whenever a job is scheduled to start, the job ...

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Jobs Don't Start

Hey Guys:I've been running BE 8.5 for several years, with nary a hitch, until recently. On 01/07, our normal nightly backups ran fine, with no errors. However, since then, my scheduled jobs fail to fire! They are all noted as "pending," even when ...

Job length mystery

We backup up a server through a remote agent. We are notified via email that the job has completed successfully. The issue is that going through the detail logs, the job indicates that it took only less than an hour to complete (including verificat...

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Capacity of tape is reported wrong

Hi everyone hope you can help me here. I have a customer that is useing Veritas 9.0 for backup. WIndows 2000 server and a single Travan tape drive that holds up to 20 gigs compressed.I have a problem with veritas only showing 16 mb of space on the ...

Veritas keeps putting my HP SureStore offline

Please can someone tell me how to get veritas to say the drive is online? it looks like it disables the drive when an error occurs on the drive itself.I've solved the drive error but veritas dosn't renable the drive. This is proving to be a very anno...

Dell PowerVault 120T Autoloader w/ BE 8.6

Can anyone tell me if BE 8.6 for Windows 2000 supports the Dell PowerVault 120T DLT1 Autoloader?Im about to do the install this evening and I cant find much info, also im looking for the drivers and still having no luck at all.Thanks in advance,Tommy

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Backup Exec with multiple drives

Is it possible to install 2 backup devices onto a server and have Backup Exec backup to both drives simultaneously? I have 2 Sony AIT3 drives and would like to,effectively, double my backup speed by backing up to 2 drives at a time.

pre post commands

Having problems with pre/post commands executing correctly. Commands execute when testing but not when running backup jobs.

Best practices

Does Veritas have any documentation on best practices concerning backup

Unable to attach to [servername]. Item not found.

Unable to attach to .The item was not found.^ ^ ^ ^ ^Unable to attach to .^ ^ ^ ^ ^I am running Backup Exec 8.6. My media server has the SQL Agent installed. Both servers are running Windows Server 2003 Std. Remote server has Remote Agent installed a...

New to Veritas

I am new to Veritas,i was recommended to use a backup and restore utility for backuping database and mediaplease if anyone can provide an clue to where a documentation or any sort of guide to my issue,i would be very pleased

Host Interface Error

I am running Veritas 9.1 on a Windows 2003 Standard Edition server.We are having one particular issue that casues concern. The error :The tape drive has a problem with the host interface:1. Check the cables and cable connections.2. Restart the opera...

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