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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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rdmchugh by Level 1
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Resolved! Ralus on Gentoo server

I'm using a gentoo server and now I want to back it up.   I am trying to install the agent onto the Gentoo box and get the following.   Anyone have any ideas: Last section of logs:   coyote installralus623160952 # cat /etc/gentoo-release Gent...

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Resolved! Transaction Log Truncate in passive node of DAG

Dear All,   My client have a backup exec 2014, wants to backup DAG Microsoft Exchange 2013 via passive node only. I wonder, will backup exec 2014 truncate transaction logs while backup via passive node since the transaction logs only exist in activ...

MSI_iqbal by Level 5
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NDMP with NetApp cDOT (Cluster-Mode)

Has anyone had success in BackupExec 2012 or 2014 in backing up via NDMP a NetApp filer running cDOT (Cluster-Mode) 8.2 or higher? We have an open case with support when running 2014+cDOT 8.2.1 where we cannot browse any snapshots and/or files within...

Resolved! Backup Exec 2014 - Stuck on 'Discovering Resources'

Small Business Server 2011 - fully patched and freshly rebooted Backup Exec 2014 Small Business Edition - fresh install Set up a Friday full job and a Monday-Thursday differential jobs to a set of USB drives that are rotated. The Friday full job si...

Backing up Hyper-V 2012

I have backup Exec server 2014 running over windows server 2012 R2. I have created two backup job for backing up Hyper-V 2012 virtual machines. full backup job and incrementally backup job. the issue with incrementally backup job as it is backing ...

Resolved! Backup BE Server itself using another BE Server

I am running two Backup Exec 2014 Servers on same LAN network which are connected with two tape drives separately. Both servers do backup of various windows base servers. I Just wanted to know that is it possibel that these two BE servers can backup ...

Not able to catalog/work around does not work either

I have been banging my head against the wall for the better part of two days now. Here is my predicament. I am trying to make sure that our backup server can be restored and running with very little downtime from the tapes we use. I turn on all Backu...

Error e000ff21 when try to backup Exchange

Hello all, I need to change the BackupExec 2012 SP4 media server (from W2003 to W2008R2). All is OK on my W2003 serveur : I can backup my Exchange 2007 cluster server with my svc-backup service account I have installed Backup Exec 2012 SP4 on my ne...

Resolved! Backup of Exchange and system state vss backup fails on sbs2008

Hi   We were backing exchange and system state ok till around 2 weeks ago.   It started failing with error Backup- OPTICSBS2008 - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "\\OPTICSBS2008\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group". Advanced Open Fi...

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slow backup rate

i have a backupexec 2012 sp 3 installed in my enviroment. the is this particular job on a particular drive that the job rate is very slow. it is as slow as 50mb/min. i have an LTO5 tape library with with 2 drives. i have other data being backed up fr...

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Resolved! Unable to recover a windows server using sdr custom disk

Hi all , I am using Backup Exec 2012 . I taken backup of few servers with SDR enabled . I created one Custom sdr disk . Using this disk i tried to recover one of our windows servers . But at final step (Recover ) , it is giving the following error...

Testing credentials

Hi Since migrating from 2012 R2 to 2014 i receive a daily email telling me that the credentials on some jobs has not been tested. So i go in a test. 99% of the time i get success. However i have noticed that a number of areas that the account selec...

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Resolved! Backup Exec 2014

Hi,   Please could you provide me with the Backup Exec 2014 Guide??   Regards

lanloun by Level 4
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After years of pain, we're done

Greetings, I go back to Seagate with Backup Exec. We've used it for years, since the middle 90's. But I've had it. I'm done.  This is now the worst software product I think I've ever encountered. And we're in tech. The product sucks, the support ...

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Resolved! Symantec Backup Exec License Assessment Tool Report - Problem

Hi,     My backup environment has the following licenses:   1x Backup Exec 2012 12x Agent for VMware & Hyper-V 1x LEO 1x Deduplication option     I got 12 servers and I successfully configured and ran BE2012. On one ESXi 5.x hosts I insta...

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Resolved! VMWare Agent Buffer Config

I am in the never ending process of trying to get deduplication running at a decent speed, and found an article that states I can tune my VMWare agent settings to increase read/write buffers. It does not, however, state what recommended values are pe...

Resolved! Questions about upgrade from Backup Exec 2012 to 2014

Few questions about upgrading:   - From my testing, it looks like once 2014 is installed, backups will not run until agents are updated and servers are restarted, is this correct? - Will existing backup settings be preserved after the update?   ...

cmbezln by Level 2
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Move Catalog on Backupexec 2012

Backup Exec has almost filled my C: I need to move the C: \Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\Catalogs to my D: is there a procedure for this Many thanks