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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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The policy that you have selected does not exist.

Hi, I cannot do the back-up to my hyper-v server. first the job was not backing up it was showing just "Ready" but not starting at all, then I deleted the job and tried to recreate it. when I click OK to create the job I got this error: The server wa...

Robotic Library

I have just installed a new robotic library and I can't get backup exec to back up to tape.I have the backup job setup and have have set the storage to the robotic library. I have defined two media sets, an incremental medai set and a full media set....

Resolved! Unsupported compressions ratios being stated by Backup Exec

Our Backup Exec server is using LTO-6 tapes which have a maximum compression ratio of 2.5:1 in ideal circumstances, which are rarely achieved.For some tapes, Backup Exec is quoting compression ratios of 5.77:1 and 5.33:1 (see attached screenshot)How ...

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agent stopped working when backup oracle database

i have backup exec 2014 i trying to backup oracle database installed in linux operating system with version 7, i can backup datafile from the operating system with no problem but when i try to backup oracle database the agent stopped the service in l...

Backup Exec 20 Speeds

We back up a lot of data to tape and some of the jobs are over 6TB in size and are taking over a week to complete so I'm trying to improve speeds.Slowest link in the LAN operates at a gigabit so I would expect to see speeds around the 200-250Mb/s mar...

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Backup Exec 20.3 USB Speed slowdown

Hello,we have a problem with performance degradation on backup jobs.We have the BE 20.3 installed on Server 2016, and do backups to a USB 3.0 Disk device.In the past 12 months this worked fine, backup speed of ~2'000MB/minSince mid November, the back...

Changing service accounts

Hi all,Please be informed that we are going to change Backup Exec service account and we find out the step as below:https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/115890065-115890070-0/id-SF330571715-1158900701.In the task pane, under Services Tasks, clic...

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Resolved! Backup Exec 20 Capacity Edition

HelloI have purchased 7 TB of Capacity Edition and intend to create a CASO environment with 1 CAS and 3 MMS.As I really don´t know in advance how much data will be backed up by those MMS I am wondering how to distribute those 7 TB of licenses among t...

Jobs stop running every 1-2 weeks

About every week or so for the last 4 months, BE will stop running jobs. I can't find any errors. The last job to run would finish successfully and the next scheduled job would just not start. The timing appears pretty random - it might happen after ...

Managed Service Account Issue within Backup Exec

HiI'm desperately trying to update our license for our backup exec server which acts as disaster recovery. However whenever I try to (see screenshots below) it asks for the managed service account password. I didn't think it was possible to get the m...

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Job remains stuck on Snapshot Processing

HiWe are trying to backup Shadow Copy Components from a File server. Once the job is initiated, it stucks on "Snapshot Processing" forever. At the same time if we log in to the File Server and check Volume Shadow Copy service, it shows running but sh...

Adding new Tapes to Backup Exec 12

Hi there,I just added a new tape to Backup Exec 12. I ran the Inventory Command and Associated it to my Weekly Media Set. But it still has a question mark next to the Label name. Is there a step that I missed? Thanks

Job began to write to a used tape, original Data lost?

HiCould I ask about a job I just set off. I accidentally had a tape left in the tape drive which was full but I know the overwrite media was set to 4 weeks or so when the tape was originally filled around 2 months ago. I started a new backup job toda...

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Resolved! Agent install failed on Windows 2003 R2 Server

Hi,I'm unable to install agent remotely nor directly on Windows 2003 R2 server. Here is the error message:1-23-2018,14:11:10 : Windows Operating System Version: 5.2 - Domain Controller+ 11-23-2018,14:11:10 : Failed to get proc address for GetProductI...

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Resolved! BE16 new tape device not responding

Hi,we run a Win2016 Server x64 with BE16 and a Dell Tape Library TL2000 attached (1 Drive IBM 3580).After installing Windows Updates, BE suddenly showed 2 Tape Devices. One was named correctly "IBM ULT3580-HH6" like before, but it was not responding ...

Re: Backup Exec beendet Job nicht

Hallo,Ich habe genau das Selbe problem. Wenn ich einstelle das das Band nach Fertigung des Auftrages raus kommen soll passiert dieses auch aber die Sicherung läuft weiter.Die Einstellungen die hier genannt wurden finde ich abe rnicht oder übersehe Si...

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BE15 Not using all the Tapes to back up

Hi,We have two LTO6 tape drives (4 tapes in total 6-1 to 6-4). We run a full backup to disk, then a dup to tape. On the days when i do a full backup, I inventory the tapes then erase them so they are empty. I have set up the jobs to use one storage p...

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