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Backup Exec 22.2 - BETA Program registration is open

We are recruiting for our exclusive BETA Program for Veritas Backup Exec 22.2, and we hope that you will consider joining. The program is tentatively planned to start May 29 and run through June 19, 2023. The actual time commitment that we would requ...

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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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Convert Windows agent full backup to Virtual

Server info:Backup Server is "*****BEXEC1"Virtual server named with "****JBNA1"  is a Gen 2 Hyper-v windows 2016 serverI have run a full successful backup on "*****JBNA1" and now trying to convert it to a virtual machine to do a restore with but revi...

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Centos OS Backups fail

Installed the linux agent on a CentOS 7 virtual machine and view the files or perform a backup.Besides port 10,000 being open on the CentOS vm, is there any other inbound or outbound ports i need open on either the:linux virtual machinebackup exec se...

Hyperv VM backup fails 0xe000fe30

Enviroment InformationBackup Exec 20 server (OS Win 2016)HyperV cluster (OS Win 2012 R2)Win VM to backup (OS Win 2016)When i start the backup i can see on the windows hyperv maanger that the VSS snapshot starts on the virtual machine but then fails a...

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RD1000 cartridges - re using

I am using Dell RD1000 tape cartridges, 1 for each day of the week. There are 3 servers being backed up each day and they take up about 80% of a cartridge i.e. about 800GB. The backup job is set to keep the data for 1 day but when the following weeks...

Resolved! Use the disk with more space in a Pool

Hi,I have some Iscsi disks, some have 10 tb and others 5tb in a Pool of disks.Sometimes I have more space on the disks of 10 tb like 2tb, but the disks of 5tb are full on that moment, like some 100 gb free.But BackupExec always insist to use the disk...

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Need Urgent Help with Backup Exec

Hello,I was just hit recently with an encrypto Virus that wiped out all my DCs and Fileservers.  But I still have my backup :)The backup was taken with symantec 12.X, I was doing a backup to an external disk.I would like to restore the data from this...

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.vmdk restore job is very slow

The scenario is this. We backup virtual machine (WMware) to dedup via BE20.3. The network type is SAN.The BE and backup media server is the same server. It's a physical server.The hard disk is configured in RAID5.The backup speed is 4000MB/Min~4500MB...

Trialling NDMP

We would like to trial NDMP with Backup Exec 20.3. Veritas Support advised I can remove the licences from the server and this will start the trial period where I can make use of the NDMP functionality, when I remove the licences however, the applicat...

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File servers hanging during backups

I have two data centers, each with an installation of Backup Exec 20.3 with CASO. Since the last Microsoft updates, one of our file servers in each data center will hang during backups. One server is completely unresponsive and we cannot login to it....

Backup Exec and multi-core processors

Can anyone point me in the direction of any available information relating to how Backup Exec 20 utilises multi-core processors. We're looking at a new server and I want to know if BE would benefit from more cores or more GHz per core.I'm guessing an...

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Upgrade Backup Exec 16 to 20 with Deduplication enabled

We need to upgrade Backup Exec 16 to 20.3. Current environment is having Deduplication enabled for Primary storage. Could anyone share the rollbackup plan if anything goes wrong and application got crashed/currupted. Also, let us know do we face any ...

Resolved! Backup failure Backup Exec 2014

HelloI am trying to do a backup of SQL 2014 running on a Windows 2012R2 server, using Backup Exec 2014. I have created a domain level account to do the backups, and added it to the databases with the permission to Connect. I am getting the following ...

Backup failed

Hello,after i made our exchange disk bigger the backup faild.I tryed to make a backip without the exchange disk and it worked. So its definetly the Exchange disk 

Exec 15 showing Media Capacity as 2.38

Hi,We are using Backup Excec 15 and HP tap library with LTO6 Tap. Even I enabled compression with backup, the media capacity is showing as native capacity (2.38TB) instead of Compressed capacity. So I fear I'm losing remaining all space of 6TB tap. H...

VSS V-79-40960-38521 error

Hi everyone,BE 20.1 is not able to backup a 2008R2 VM guest on a 2012R2 Hyper-V Host. I get the V-79-40960-38521 error:V-79-40960-38521 - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "VRTSRV::\\host\Hyper-V?Virtual?Machine\guest". Snapshot technol...