We are currently recruiting customers who are interested in participating in the upcoming Backup Exec 22 Technical Preview Program. The Technical Preview Program for the upcoming release of Backup Exec contains some new features which continue to pos...
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...
Hello All,We recently installed Backup Exec 20 (updating to 20.2). Ever since the installation we have received a daily active alert with a category of "Veritas Update Error" and a message stating "The query for available updates failed, error code=...
I've added some disk storage and now want one of my jobs to go to disk first before tape like it has been. Can't seem to see if I can move the stage to the front (1st) or will I have to delete the job and add a new job with disk storage first?
This is more of a feature request/fix. When looking at Job History then View Job History of a specific Job Type, the Average Elapsed Time includes Failed jobs. I believe it would be more useful to omit the Failed jobs or present both figures, Avera...
Hello , I was running Backup exec 12.5 from last five years smoothly, Yesterday , my server got crashed , I have all the backup such as catalog etc. But lost Setup files . Please any body help me /share me the link for Version 12.5 . I was told that...
We are currently playing with Backup Exec & the AWS Tape Gateway to backup to VTL in S3/Glacier. We have an issue where backups are failing and also where once a week (sometimes every other week) when one backup job begins, it first wipes all tapes. ...
Hi all,I upgraded our old Backup Exec from 2014 to 20.2 . Everything seems fine. But when i try to add our Vmware Vcenter below error message is coming. "The server was unable to complete the requested operation. Connot connect to Vcenter or ESX host...
We are trying make an upgradefrom version 16 to 20.2. We found tips from this forum and from Verias pages.At first stage, OS is Windows Server 2008, so we made new installation of Windows Server 2012. New installation of BE 16 and Live Update to last...
Lost my Backup Exec server and a viable recovery option isn't available so a rebuild had to happen.I still have my DeDup volume intact and would like to re-add it to Backup Exec.I've tried addding it with what I presumed to be the same account but I ...
Plan to install new BE into a HPE Store Easy 1860(WIndows Storage Server 2016) with FC (through SAN switch with Zoning configured)attached HPE MSL2024 Tape library with two LTO 7 tape drive.I did checked all the veritas HCL/SCL that HW/SW are compat...
BE12.5 was so much easier.BE15 Loc A (MMS server) Jobs created here.BE15 Loc B (CASO Server) Managed backup server.I have a large restore of files I wanted to do restore on another machine at other BE15 location B. I took/inserted the tapes and inven...
So I created disk storage and the BEDATA directory was created. My question is how can i create sub directorys off of this for say Exchange and file server jobs. Do you have this option or do I have to carve up volumes and send the jobs to those volu...
I'm trying to run BE instant recovery from a VM backup taken via virtual-based, agentless backup method (VADP). No Windows agent installed in the VM. But I can't seem to enable instant recovery when I backup with this method (the instant recovery but...
Hi all,i have a esxi cluster (2 hosts connected to an FC storage bay) instead of installing a new BE physical with robotic library tape, i want to install BE as a VM and add the physical server as host to the vmware cluster.is this possible? could BE...
Hi, my BE 16 doesn't delete old system state backup sets even though it has expired and has no dependencies, full and incremental backup sets. this has occurred for about 2 months. i tried to expire it manually and still doesn't workthe DLM enabled, ...
Hello Everyone I have Backup Exec 2014 64bit in the environemnt and want to upgrade to the latest version which is BE20.I found this article https://vox.veritas.com/t5/Backup-Exec/Upgrading-to-Veritas-Backup-Exec-20-1-How-to-Get-Started/ba-p/851296 ,...
Our logs are set to 90 day retention. I need to recover some older logs. From what I understand, the job logs are xml files in c:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\Data. If I recover these files from tape, can I just drop them in that folder and vie...
Hi,Requesting for your assitance regarding our issue, its almost 3 months since this problem occur and until now the problem still exist. The main cause was the storage of our backup goes offline, after we restart the services, the storage goes onlin...
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Hello, can you tell me the best practices for backup servers in dmz? Most of the servers use windows 2016. when I try to deploy the agent this one puts it in failure. the servers are in another vlan and no inside to the domain . thank you for your he...
I just need a few files from a backup, but GRT is not enabled on the job. So, I restored the vdisk locally, and imported into our VMFS datastore. I get the error when I try to add the vdisk to a virtual machine. At first I tried a dev server to not i...
