Do your homework before play
We recently experienced some images that had failed to be expired on their own due to the known bug in 6.5 that won’t expire old 5.1 images from disk and it reminded me how very important it is to do ...
Blog Articles
Backup Exec 12.5 Granular Recovery
One of the really cool functions of BE is the Granular Recovery Technology (GRT). By the way, anytime you need more information on any aspect of BE please see the Backup Exec for Windows Servers Admin...
Share Your Migration Story and Win
Have you migrated from another product to one of Symantec’s Backup products? We want to hear about it—and we’re sure others in the community would like to hear your story as well. So, we’re holding a ...
BE Installation Upgrades
If you are not on Backup Exec 12.5 you really should think about upgrading, if not for the new comprehensive recovery of virtual and physical systems, or enhanced granular data recovery, or the fact t...
Backups for Disaster recovery
For the past 5 years we've been using on of the Backup Exec for Windows products to complete our disaster recovery data backups. We've always done an online, offsite and tape backup of the data files ...
New Technology Is Making Much More Possible But More Complex as Well
It really shouldn’t come as a surprise that a backup redesign is sweeping through IT departments. I think everyone is aware that backup has been identified as a primary IT pain point. And the reason i...
Ten steps to do backup the right way
Align business and IT requirements Prioritize requirements Determine true costs for delivery options Predict the impact of data loss Establish service levels Modify infrastructure to meet agreed servi...
Deactivating a client
Hi, sometimes it's necessary to deactivate a client for some time. NetBackup doesn't make this easy for us admins, since there is no such option in the GUI. The most common way is to delete the client...
Time is flying
Time is flying.. it’s already been three weeks since we launched the new community. Things seem to look damn pretty in here, with all of you settle down in a routine and busy sharing information with ...
Upgrade Backup Exec 9.1 for Windows Servers to Version 12.5
Hi, we habe a quite big problem because we need to upgrade our Backup Licenses from 9.1 to the latest version... Our last info was, that it is not possible to make an upgrade directly from 9.1 to 12.5...
