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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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rdmchugh by Level 1
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Resolved! Installing BE 2012

I am upgrading my server from server 2003 (32 bit) to Server 2008(64 bit). My current server 2003 is installed with BE 12.5. On the new server 2008, I am intending to use BE 2012. Can I use the old serial key which is currently used? Any help is appr...

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Resolved! Domain Name Change - Redirect Resource Selections

We moved from a 2000 AD to a 2008 R2 AD DS. My backup jobs won't run because they point to computer_name.old_domain. Do I have to recreate every job or is there a way to redirect the jobs to computer_name.new_domain? Thank you, Patrick

BE 2012 rewinding tape?

BE 2012 seems to take a long time with little data transfer when I have several small incrementals from the same server on disk, duplicated to tape. I'm assuming that it's rewinding the tape after every backup set. Can I get BE to write these (from t...

jelutz by Level 3
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Backup exec 10R3 and LTO5 tape

Hi There I need to restore the content of a tape (LTO5) and i had a seocnd tape with the content i need. When i first try to do so, the tape library went offline so had to reboot server & tape library to make it back up. Then i try to use the second ...

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BE 2010 won't write to tape - unrecognized format.

I had a tape drive in a remote location fail, so I purchased a new LTO4 drive and shipped it down with a case of brand new LTO3 tapes. When I try to run a job to this new device, I get an error that the media is in an unrecognized format and must be ...

Clean option > Device Tasks is Greyed Out

Hello I am using Backup Exec 2010 on Windows Server 2003 R3 with a Dell Powervault 125T Autoloader tape drive. I have properly defined the cleaning tape slot which is in Slot 1 by placing a check mark in the "Cleaning slot" box under Properties. A ba...

BE 2012 ignoring media sets in tape library

Hi All, I have an installation of BE 2012 SP1a running the latest patches which is connected to a Quantum tape library with 25 slots. The problem I'm encountering is that BE will, seemingly randomly, use tapes that are in a different media set than t...

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Backup Exec 2010 R3 and SQL Server 2012

We are running Backup Exec 2010 R3.  We would like to backup our SQL Server 2012 databases.  We have SQL Server Agent licensed.  I have installed the remote agent on the SQL Server 2012 server.  I noticed when selecting what to backup The Microsoft S...

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Resolved! Howto Troubleshoot the E-Mail Notification

Hello all,   we got an Exchange 2010 and a Backup Exec 2012 Server.   It does not work to send Notifications via the Exchange-Server. The problem seems to be a Backup Exec related issue. There are no incoming Mails from the Backup Exec Server.    I h...

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Resolved! iSCSI configuration

I have a customer using Backup Exec 2012, They have been using 2010 but the scripts need to be deleted and re-created. I am doing this without any problems, but when it comes to selecting the destination I cannot select the iSCSI drive S: I have trie...

Resolved! Access is denied to Remote Agent

Hi, I'm having an issue with a server that I want to backup through BE 2012.  I did not install a remote agent on that server.  The selection for backup is just a regular share.  The system logon account is administrator of that server to backup and ...

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Backup Strategy help

We have 5 servers that we want to take backup of, we have bought Backupexec 2012, we have installed it on windows server 2003 32bit, now we have two storage devices, Sun Tape based and Netgear disk based, what we want is to take daily incremental and...

IdrisEzzy by Level 4
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Resolved! Success in backup job, but only a few kb backed up

Hello In Symantec Backup Exec 2012 I am 'successful' in backing up data from a remote server to tape, it contains 95 folders and total size is around 50G, but when looking at the details in job history, elapsed time of the job is under 3 minutes, byt...

Resolved! Problem Lisence BE 2012

Dear All, I have problem with lisence BE 2012, I import file *.slf and this success, but the status of BE 2012 always Trial Version.   I tried http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH183970 , but it is no success for me. ...

Error on Deduplication Store BE2012

hi. For few day i have problem with deduplication store on BE2012 with all updates. I use dedup store included in BE2012. When the backup job or Catalog  job run i receive an error: Inventory Device 00008 -- Media Label: OST00001604-410A4FA01D37CA96 ...

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Resolved! How to delete completed jobs

Hi All,           How to delete completed backup job in Backup Exec 2010 using bemcmd command? Whenever I run bemcmd -o202 -jtestjob fails with RETURN VALUE:-1.    Thanks in advance for your help  Veeresh Hosur

Resolved! Windows Server 2012 Deduplication and Backup Exec

We have upgraded our file server to Windows Server 2012 and enabled the integrated Deduplication feature, which reduced disk consumption by 50 %. Now, with Backup Exec 2012 R2 (that has Windows Server 2012 support), will there also be less data to ba...

Resolved! VMWARE ESX Servers Support

I have three VMware ESX servers. each server has virtual machines. September's half created called VM. As I can use the same tape for 3 Jobs created independently?

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Resolved! Restore Individual Emails from Backup Exec 2010 R2

Hello All, Our CIO has requested his emails from 2008!     During that time our backups were done on a SDLT1 drive.  I have located the correct tape (and drive) run a Catalog and can see the emails that he wishes to recover. Problem is. We no longer ...