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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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Resolved! Restore to NetWare 6.5/OES

Tasked with restoring an old GroupWise server to gain access to old emails. Complete NetWare noob, and IT from back in the day is long gone. GroupWise 7 was running on NetWare 6.5 OES. We have the software disks for NW and GW. I've duplicated what I ...

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Resolved! Compare two jobs to see which files were changed / deleted?

What method can I use to compare two completed jobs to find out what files changed between jobs.  One job shrank 10GB and I need to track down whodunnit. Thanks FYI - Logging was set to detailed but I had a problem recently where backup job logs ...

BE 2012 SDR: no restore selections visible

In short: the SDR wizards connects to the (only existing) BE server, the list of clients is also available as drop-down, but the list of available backups sets is empty for every machine. No error message. Environment: W2K3 server, both BE and client...

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Resolved! Tape Drives Offline!

I have an attached tape library which has been working well for a few months since we installed it. It has 4 tape drives inside.   Today 1 drive went offline. Then another. And this afternoon a 3rd one went offline. When I bring a drive online via th...

BackupExec 2010 Restore to VM, will this procedure work?

We have a physical machine running WIndows 2008 R2 that was backed up using Symantec BackupExec 2010.  The hard drives died and we want to restore from backup to a virtual machine running on VMware ESX.  Is it possible to do?  Will it boot?  What exa...

Resolved! DR for CAS and MBE servers

I'm working some test cases for DR of a pair of BE3600 appliances. One is setup as Central Admin Server and the other is Managed Backup Exec server. They each have a dedup storage and shared with the other server. Anyone knows what are the proper pro...

Resolved! Migration BackupExec 2012

Ce commentaire est à destination de ceux qui se pose la question : doit-je migrer vers BackupExec 2012 ? - La réponse la voici    Mon infrastructure comporte une cinquantaines de machine (virtuelles et physiques confondues). Il y a encore Quelques j...

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Resolved! Unable to attach to \VIM_SQLEXP V-79-57344-33932

I have a sql express instance on my vCenter server that symantec will not backup. It comes up with Unable to attach to \VIM_SQLEXP.   My first few troubleshooting steps have lead me to this point. When I go to backup properties, and I select test/edi...

Resolved! Sharepoint 2010 backup - GRT failing. Workaroud?

I have the error covered in this TECH article: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH202002 Does anybody have a fix or workaround for doing GRT-backups? Non-GRT backups work fine.  

ikmit by Level 4
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how do I search multiple drives?

I'm still getting used to Backup Exec 2012.  I'm trying to search for *.pst files on a server with 3 drive partitions (C:, D:, F:).  When I search it finds them on the D: drive but not the F: drive.  How do I direct Search to search on the whole serv...

Resolved! sharepoint 2013

Hi, we have an issue with BE 2010 R3 and sharepoint 2013, does this version of BE support sharepoint 2013?     Shahin

Resolved! Backup Freenas without Errors and Exceptions

Morning, Can somebody share with me how to backup a FreeNas box without the following errors and exceptions?   Job ended: 18 June 2013 at 02:18:41 Completed status: Completed with exceptions Backup- SERVER Remote Agent not detected on SERVER.   Ba...

Can not select the partition on Backup Exec

Hi , I have installed the Backup Exec Agent on Window 2008 Server R2  and I want to backup the second partition there. On Backup Exec Selection List Backup Exec Media Server ,  the Server Comes but the Partitition which i want to backup is greyed out...

Resolved! Event ID 17207 / Cannot find the file BE_DLO.mdf

Hi there, I noticed the Service Backup Exec DLO Administration Service is not started. In the application log on the server I see an error that it is missing a file (that file is indeed missing). How can I get this file back? It seems to be missing f...

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Virtual machines showing as physical in BE2012

Hi All, Am hoping someone can help. We have a relatively new installation of BE2012 (latest service pack and patches). We have the VMWare agent licenced and installed along with the Windows agents on the actual VMs. I have added the ESX server and ru...

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Respond OK to finish job?

In order to finish the backup job I get a message to "Respond OK" and then remove media. The media has already been ejected before I respond OK but the job is still showing as in progress.  After I repsond OK it shows the job as being finshed.  Is th...

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Resolved! How to stop .BKF files from being produced?

Hi All   We are running symantec backup exec 12.5 and I have been trying to clear up some space on the server.  I notice that there was alot of these files and wanted to move them somewhere else because they are huge. (Check screenshot below) http://...

data wrongly being backed up from outside specified date range

Greetings, My weekly backup is now breaking 200gb whereas my dailes are only 10-20gb. The weekly backup job specifies to backup working set last accessed in the last 5 days however im getting stuff thats not been accesed/modified for at least two mon...

JJ by Level 4
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Resolved! Backup Exec VMware SRM

Hi! I’m going to provide provide disaster resistant backup solution for my virtual infrastructure. I have two sites, first is production, the second is recovery site. Virtual machines are running on prodaction site and protected with SRM, so on the s...

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