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...
Hi all, We have a weird problem on one of my customer's site. I just migrated their backup infrastructure to BE 2012. I installed Backup Exec 2012 from scratch on a new system Win 2008 R2. And yes, I installed the dedup option :) Versions : BE 2012...
I setting on TAPE can append and overwrite on the job backup , but now today cannot overwrite Job backup... Please help to advise ?
Hi, I have a Backup Exec 2010 R3 installed on WIndows Server 2008 R2 in my environment. I am unable to backup active files used by operating system skipped during backup. All files are able to backup except for this 'httpd.exe' which is used by apach...
How I can do a block-level backup of a netapp volume, if it's possible on symantec backup exec 2012? And for this need any license? (now I've lic's of: ndmp/advanced disk-based backup/deduplication/ent.server/storage provisioning).
Hi Guys, I have a bunch of tapes I need cataloging that where in my old HP MSL6030 library running a HP Ultirum 3 drive being backed up byBE 2012. I am cataloging them on a different server using an IBM LTO TD3 drive SCSI drive also with BE 2012. I ...
My BE media server was used last night to test Deduplication. It was my first try at it. The server has C: and F:, F: being the larger volume. In BE I set thigns up to run a full backup of the entire system (physical server acting as Hyper-V host,...
I've search and wasn't able to find answer to this specific question.... I have a backup server in location A, and would like to backup a Laptop in location B to a desktop in location B. the backup works howerver it went snail slow at 2.00 MB/min. I ...
I have had a ticket open since September with Symantec and apparently there is a bug with Backup Exec 2012 that is still under investigation. I believe it first started with Service Pack 2, however it may have started before then. Here is a brief des...
Which Symantec products can be used to backup locally and send a copy over WAN to DR site? What is the bandwidth requirements? Is there a calculator for this? What is the storage requirements best for this situation? iSCSI? NAS? Assuming WAN spee...
In the C:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\Logs folder of my Backup Exec 2012 server there is a file named CatError.log which seems to be growing without bounds. Right now it is over 2 GB in size which makes it too big to open, and even the tail co...
Hi, I run Backup Exec 2012 SP3 and need to restore a server to a virtual machine. I have a file level backup and SDR is NOT available as there was a directory excluded from the backup. Now I have the problem, that SDR is needed to restore the server ...
Hi Guys, I have a bunch of LTO3 tapes that came out of my datacenter's tape library running a HP Ultrium 3 drive with Backup exec 2012. I'm running inventory and cataloging on an old server at my office which runs an IBM LTO TD3. Most of worked witho...
Hi all. My BE media server is also a 2008 R2 Hyper-V host machine. On it are 4 VMs, all 2008 R2. One is a domain controller, another is Exchange 2010. I have both the Agent for Apps & Databases and the Agent for Hyper-V installed. And I have the...
I just learned in another thread that you should not enable compression on a backup job if you are using Deduplication. So my goal then would be just to use Deduplication since it provides much better storage optimzation. I have the Option installe...
How can I check what amount of space a full backup will take up? The only thing I can see that sounds like it might do that is Test Run, but this apparently requires a tape to be inserted which it is not presently and I'm remote. Also if there is a...
Hi, For my situation (example): Full backup - tape 1 in slot 7 (26 Jan2014) Diffiential backup - tape 2 in slot 3 (27 Jan - 1 Feb 2014) =========================================== If I want to restore data of 29 Jan 2014, do I need to put tape 1 into...
Hello, I've got a strange situation with one of our servers where BackupExec 2012 runs perfectly fine when doing files/folders, but when I try to have it run an exchange GRT backup it crashes the server completely with in seconds of the job starting....
Hello, I'm trying to restore a mailbox from a full snapshot on disk and get the following error message "The job failed with the following error: An error occurred while creating or accessing the directory specified for this operation. Check to ...
Hi, i am sizing a new backup infrastructure. In particular the landing zone (SAS 15K Drives). Now i want to know which values can i calculate with during a File Server Backup. What is happening (or how is data written at the target) - which IO size ...
I have lost the drive where my BE catalog resided. I have been taking BE backups of the BE Catalog, so I do have a backup of the catalog from last week. What steps should I follow to get the catalog restored to the new location? A rapid response wou...
