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...
Product hangs when trying to do an update.
Any ideas please? Im having trouble booting up my restored server in AWS.Im trying to restore an on premises physical server to AWS as an EC2 instance, here is what I have have done so far:(Note the server is using DHCP so has no fixed IP)1) Restored...
We just renewed all of our BE 2014 licenses, but I'm checking out upgrade options. The license for BE 20.1 media server is showing up in my entitlements with a check mark for the service status and expiration of April 2019, but that's it. How do I ge...
We use Backup Exec to back up several Hyper-V VMs. I have two particular VMs that failed to back up. The error is:V-79-40960-38521 - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "VRTSRV::\\HYPERVHOST\Hyper-V?Virtual?Machine\VMNAME". Snapshot techn...
Hi,we have a HP StorageWorks 1/8 G2 Tape Autoloader with a cleaning tape at slot 8.For the weekend we ware able to backup everthing on 7 tapes, 4 for the weekly, 3 for the daily (saterday).Now because of more data/servers to backup the daily also hav...
HiI have an issue where we are needing the ability to restore from historic backup tapes and will soon no longer have any physical windows servers, it there any way of being able to move the Backup Exec tape drive to a PC so we could restore if we ev...
Hello everyone....When I read page 175 of the BeAdmin_en.pdf, it says:After a differential backup, each subsequent differential backup backs up the same files as the previous differential backup. It also backs up as any new files or changed files dat...
When running backup job from NetApp filer CIFS shares, job data rate is very slow when compared with other jobs not using CIFS.Example speeds from NetApp: 352MB/min, 427MB/min, 597MB/min, etcExample speeds from other NAS/workstation: 2,512MB/min, 5,7...
HiI'm trying to recover from a RAID hardware failure. The RAID has been recreated and the OS restored. I can't get Backup Exec to reconnect to the dedup folder to restore user data. I'm seeing a transaction error when spoold starts up. pdde-config.l...
We have some severs that we snapshot once a week. They fail when the job runs. If I re-run the job on our off night, it still fails (this tells me this isn't any sort of load problem). If I take a snapshot via vSphere client, and remove it, and then ...
Dell R710, Server 2008 R2 SP1, DELL PV124T (LTO5)Full weekly backup job hangs, requesting media after Verify stage starts. A look at the Slots shows ALL available tapes have been moved to the targeted (weekly) media set. Job history indicates job has...
This video shares best practices for installing OpenDedupe to Azure and configuring Optimized Duplication with Backup Exec 16.
This video provides guidance on installing and configuring OpenDedupe with Backup Exec 16.
This video shows you how to add Cloud Storage to a Backup Exec 16 virtual server deployed in Azure.
This video demonstrates how to deploy Backup Exec from Azure Marketplace.
What is the proper procedure to make a backup of an entire deduplication storage directory to external storage?In the backup job setup, there is both the raw directory structure of the drive letter and directory name "E:\BackupExecDeduplicationStorag...
If you try to change the computer name where Backup Exec 16 is installed, and then you reboot and try to open the BE16 console, you will see an error that mistakenly tells you the services need to be restarted:This error message is wrong, it's just t...
Why is it that active backup jobs will not just immediately cancel when requested?Backup Exec 16 seems to be as responsive to a cancel request, as a freight train hauling 500 tons of steel rebar trying to stop.After sitting here waiting for 10 minute...
I inherited two BE 16 instances in two data centers. One data center is in dire need of scratch media, and one has a huge surplus. I would like to send some to the former, but need to confirm there is no overlap in tape labels. I see there is a media...
Hi,We usually have two tapes, which have the same backup as an archive. One that's kept local, and one that's sent away for archiving.Unfortunately, our local one was wiped (didn't have the write-protection closed on the tape)Is there anyway that I c...
