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...
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...
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...
What is the process to duplicate a Tape to a Disk? Thanks JH
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO98909 includes the following note: "In a backup definition that includes a differential task, all of the backup tasks must use storage devices that the same Backup Exec server can access." I know this to be true be...
My storage pool containing 3x2TB disks shows as Disk A being full with 0 left. Which is fine, I expected that. However I also expected that rather then throw me countless erros ~ that BE would simply just 'carry on' using Disk B and then when that's ...
Hello ! I create a VM 2012 R2 on VMWare with 2 disks : 1 for the sytem. 1 for the swap. Is it necessary to backup the swap ? what is the concéquence if we not backup it ? Nicolas.
I've had a number of VM servers which had the agent installed, but don't really need it. To simplify things I've been uninstalling the agent where it was not needed. The media server still shows that there is an agent upgrade needed. Is there a wa...
Hi All, Am Planning to work on Robotic Tape Simulator, that can be used in Symantec Backup Exec 2012/2014. Does anybody know any software where Robotic Tape Library can be created. I tried working on Firestreamer and Startwind but of no ...
Hello. I have a short question about BE 2012. There are data, that I have deduplicated by Windows Server 2012 Standart(File and Storage Services -> Volumes -> Configure Data Deduplication). What will result if I write this data to tape by Symantec...
Where within backup exec can you see when a backup of a specific server is scheduled to run, and also a history report from the past 4 weeks to see how many backups ran successfully/failed for a specific server.
Hi, I have Backup Exec 2012 SP4 that backups onto a HP autoloader. Last night it was backing up on of our servers and reached the end of the tape halfway through the backup. Normally it should jump to one of the other available tapes (there were 3...
Hi, I run Backup Exec 2014 on a 2012R2 Std member server. I have an SDLT Drive hung off the back of the server to which I run daily backups of the local server only. Backup Exec was installed using the current administrator account for all service...
Hi, At my wits end with 2014 already. I have installed and uninstalled the software so many times in the last 2 days its untrue and still it wont work. To begin with it installed ok - I had 2 server listed (both the same server) and i could create...
hi We need help now purchased BE2014 with SQL Agent for windows. The question is how to deploy SQL agent and see my server and be able to directly support the Db and I am doing the Db backup like a file system. I would like to have information on...
I have a BE2010 R3 running in a production environment. Yesterday I made a test environment to check If it's Ok to recover from a disaster. When AD+EX2010 prepared in the test environment, I switched BE to that and did some databases recovery from...
Hi, I've taken over a couple of backup servers (single BE Server solutions in each case)and am trying to find out about the lcienses for backing up remote servers as I want to add another couple of backup jobs to cover missed servers. How can I f...
Hello All, I previously posted this to an existing and unrelated forum thread as I could not find out how to create a new one. I think I am now creating a new one? Hopefully this is seen by a Symantec Employee and perhaps my comments here...
Hi. I got a MS SQL Database with a Full recovery model. We also implement log shipping to an off site. Been testing BE 2014 & agent for application & database. Hope someone can shed some light on this. Question 1. As I understand for MS...
Hi everyone, I am evaluating Symantec Backup Exec 2014. I have a full database backup on Friday, a differential backup on every week day and transaction log backup on every two hours. I need to do point in time recovery. I know I need to restore the...
I am using B.Exec 2010 on Server 2008 General Problem My plight is that when I catalog tapes (this version and other versions of B.Exec), invariably I get an error. This is regardless of whether the tape is from current media server or another, ...
Is there away to set the notifications/alerts to send a summary of all alerts in one email, rather than it inundating my inbox with so many notifications that other emails are constantly being lost?
Hi everyone, As the title says I am planning to install BE2014 on either Win2012R2 or Win2008R2 and use deduplication storage. Can you please share your findings if you use one or the other OS and what the pro and cons you have found? I am current...
